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...York society, died without leaving any successors. Brooke Astor, who passed away at age 105, was a combination of the Victorian age, with all its wit and elegance, and of the modern era, with its sharp-minded determination. She had taste, discernment, character, compassion, and was extraordinarily generous. She ran a great salon where the meek and the mighty met as equals. She had a profound respect for democracy and believed, as I do, that democracy and excellence are not mutually exclusive and that public institutions, too, must aspire to be great...
Pilots have always had a pretty generous standard for judging what constitutes a safe return home: any landing you can walk away from, they say, is a good one. All the current handwringing about the gouge on the belly of the space shuttle Endeavour notwithstanding, the odds are extremely high that the seven astronauts aboard the ship will indeed walk away when their mission ends 10 days from now. That doesn't mean that there won't be plenty of knotted stomachs in Mission Control and the homes of the crewmembers until then - and with good reason...
...Weekend after weekend at school, I move between the same few haunts within the same three-mile radius (a generous estimate). I’ve made the “arduous” commute into Boston maybe four or five times a year, the rest of the time too absorbed in the same old campus events and parties and papers that litter my weekends. This summer, my renewed appetite for travel and sight-seeing emphasizes the way in which it had paled in the past few years, as I ignored the area around me: Cambridge, Boston, New England...
...something for her community -and still be a conventional wife and mother. She got them up from the bridge tables." After her exit in January, Lady Bird may edit her White House diary into shape for publication as a book-a prospect that has publishers brandishing generous offers. When the Johnsons marked their 34th wedding anniversary last week, Lady Bird presented her husband with a copy of an entry from her diary dated Feb. 13, 1941: "Big day! ... Tonight I went to my first (will it be my last and only?) dinner at the White House." With...
...Vert, Wolfgang Puck's fancy brasserie in Hollywood, where the lunchtime Prime Cheese Burger is topped with grilled onion, lettuce, tomato, "aged" cheddar and remoulade (look it up, but basically it's mayonnaise). The burgers on Lucille's menu are the classics - a dozen variations on a generous 4/10th of a pound beef patty with lettuce, tomato and onion on the side. The menu also has American staples like vegetarian salads, cheesecake and iced tea, as well as Tex-Mex offerings, an echo of Lucille's years at Rosita's, a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Barstow, Calif...