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IF DEAD PRESIDENTS COULD SMILE IN THEIR GRAVES, James Madison would be beaming. Nearly 203 years after the fourth President proposed a constitutional amendment to prevent Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise, a requisite 38 states have agreed that there is "a seeming indecorum," as Madison contended, in...
The investigation was cancelled by the Portuguese due to the tension it created in East Timor. The army threatened to kill anybody who would meet with the delegation. One senior officer told villagers in the Venilale region that if they spoke to the foreign delegates, everyone between the ages of...
IT GIVES NOTHING AWAY TO REVEAL that near the end of Alice McDermott's lyrical novel At Weddings and Wakes, there is a joyous wedding celebration. The bride, an aging ex-nun, allows herself to be swirled by her staid groom, a mailman who unexpectedly proves a sure-footed dancer...
Walt Disney World in Orlando is a theme park with hotels attached. Euro Disney is the reverse: a spectacular sprawl that confirms the company as a premier force in modern architecture. A decade ago, as architects began to shrug off their Modernist doldrums, they saw in Disney's park designs...
Graves' Hotel New York has a stolid maroon, teal and coral facade. Inside, though, the joint comes alive. Giant floor designs of the Mets and Yankees emblems, an arcade evoking the city's subway system, Broadway posters, corridor carpet that looks like carpet on tile, a lamp in the shape...