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...Tipper Gore's home, a 1915 antebellum-style mansion in the wealthy Belle Meade section of Nashville, is laid out a bit like Gore himself: a gracious and formal Southern façade; slightly stuffy rooms when you walk in the door; and startlingly modern, relaxed, informal living spaces to the rear. The Gores bought the old place five years ago and are still retrofitting it, making it energy efficient with new windows, new heating and cooling units, solar panels on the roof. (The anti-Gore crowd zinged him recently because his electricity bill last August was 10 times...
...guys couldn’t have been more gracious,” Fish said...
...Blades of Glory. (He's also her real-life husband.) "Certainly there've been movies the last couple of years that have done that, but Will doesn't. He's not litist in any way, shape or form." As lame as it sounds, Arnett believes being kind and gracious and free of neuroses is crucial to making Ferrell's comedy work. "The egg always ends up on his own face. He's incredibly sweet, and audiences can feel...
...weeks of arrival. Most end up in Sweden's heavily immigrant ghettos, like the Stockholm neighborhood of Rinkeby. The area's expanse of characterless high-rise apartment buildings dates back to the 1960s, when the Swedish government poured billions into public housing. Driving into the area from Stockholm's gracious old city is like entering another country. In fact, there are few reasons that Swedes would ever visit. Little Swedish is heard in the Middle Eastern and African supermarkets, barbershops and call-service outlets; these days the street-side talk is increasingly in Arabic...
...same time the best airlines in India will send me a text message if my flight is delayed, my kids' doctor rings a couple of days after a visit to see how his patient is doing, and the staff in a couple of hotels have been so skilful and gracious that I was barely aware of all they were doing to make my day more pleasant. Good experience or bad, though, they never fail to ask me to rate their performance...