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...tried to do that in almost every event that we've done from, you know, the White House Kitchen Garden to whenever we go to a school and read to kids. Either their teachers or the kids will be invited back here very soon. That's sort of a theme. (See pictures of the White House kitchen...
...have been discussing those. The point is now, how do you take shining the light you're shining on an issue like that? What then happens? Because that's sort of about law and money and very concrete things, as opposed to symbolic, if you plant a kitchen garden, you may send a really great message about eating habits. How does the policy side of it and the concrete side of your agenda work? Well, I think that's where the relationship between the East and the West Wing matters. One of the things that I've tried...
...these are issues that are not just important to me, but they're important to my husband and they're important to the West Wing. And then we look to them and say, O.K., we've got the kitchen garden planted and we're talking about these issues, so what's next? And the next comes from the West Wing. But we don't take it on if we don't know that there's some meat there, if that makes sense...
...Dumb Intelligence," [May 4]: Robert Baer thinks "persuasion" is far more effective than torture. I don't pretend to understand the merits of techniques for extracting intelligence from prisoners. But as a veteran, I believe that al-Qaeda operatives are not garden-variety prisoners who would respond to persuasion; they have proved to be hate-filled extremists who place no value on human life. I don't like torture either, but if it proves to obtain information that puts a stop to future bloodshed--as it has, according to experts--then I say please resume. John Stern, GRAND HAVEN, MICH...
...House is so named because the 40 huts that make up the work are mostly painted in artist Thawan Duchanee's favorite hue, which is often associated with the diabolical. The huts are dedicated to promoting contemporary art, whether it comes in the form of an immaculately composed rock garden, an elaborately carved door evocative of a temple, or vast sculptures. The bushy-bearded artist says he wants to breathe life into the otherwise inanimate structures. "The Black House evokes the past Thai civilization in a contemporary manner," says Thawan. "I try to bring the spirit, heart and soul...