Word: holidaying
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...awkward moment during an otherwise pleasant, diplomatic get-together in the nation's capital. Over the July 4 holiday two years ago, Senator George Voinovich was wending his way down the Potomac River, toward George Washington's Mount Vernon estate, accompanied by a delegation of European security experts, in town for a conference. A motorboat draped in banners that read "Equal Voting Rights for D.C." drifted up alongside the boat. Voinovich, an Ohio Republican, found himself at a loss for words. "It was very difficult to explain to my European friends why the people who lived in the District...
After their summer holiday, Bok and his wife will split their time between their East Cambridge apartment and their Florida residence, where Bok, the author of six books, will continue his writings on higher education...
...Freeness" is seasonal; searches spike during the holiday season, surpassing 4.2% of all internet searches as holiday shoppers are lured by "free shipping" offers. Summers show an equivalent rise in free queries, as boredom and more leisure time drive interest in "free games," "free chat," "free movies" and of course "free myspace layouts...
Someone apparently spent time in lockup honing her arts-and-crafts skills. When Rick and Kathy Hilton visited daughter Paris on Father's Day, she gave her father what he called a "beautiful card." But TMZ reports, "For some odd reason, Rick described this year's holiday as 'not one of my best.' Wonder why?" SCORE...
...Maybe the lure of the Presidency will be impossible to resist. But Bloomberg is 65 years old, and even some of his admirers struggle to imagine him crashing in a Holiday Inn in Nashua, N.H. They also struggle to imagine him shedding the last vestiges of his privacy (and some of his luxury!) to live in the White House; as Mayor, he's refused to tell the City Hall press corps when he's jetted off to his vacation home in Bermuda. Bloomberg has led a charmed life, but if he ever wonders about the pitfalls of a rich...