Word: lunching
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Maxime LeBleu was nibbling on a lunch of Japanese rice and vegetables with classmate Eugene Lu outside Dawson College's downtown Montreal campus yesterday, when the pair heard an odd rapid staccato popping...
When the Capitol police start politely clearing the hallways outside the Senate floor on a Tuesday afternoon it usually signals that Vice President Dick Cheney has decided to attend the Republicans' weekly policy lunch. But the gentility went out the window around noon Tuesday as the cops grabbed bystanders and pulled them out of the way as they rushed to empty the area not just for Cheney and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten, but for a special guest: Lady Margaret Thatcher...
...Senate Republican leaders weren't breaking out the top-tier invitations for nothing. Three moderate GOP Senators have split with them and the White House over how to treat detainees at Guantanamo Bay and around the world. At the lunch, Senators John Warner, John McCain and Lindsey Graham were scheduled to present their case for a detainee bill that conforms to the Geneva Conventions. The White House and Senate leaders are pushing one that would allow interrogations using methods that strain - or break, depending on whom you ask - the Conventions' rules against abuse...
...went into the policy lunch Tuesday, McCain, who was tortured in Vietnam, said "My position will not change" on the extreme methods. And Graham is adamant that the interrogation program is "a thing of the past." One or both of the competing bills may come to the floor of the Senate as early as the end of this week. For now, at least, it appears it will take more than the Iron Lady to compel the Administration opponents to back down...
...determination is the underlying theme of all successful fashion shows these days. Watching DVF's show, I was reminded of a conversation with her over ten years ago at lunch. Curled up at a corner table at Cipriani, Von Furstenberg recounted the trials and humiliations of having sold her name in many licensing deals and trying to buy it back or close out the licensing agreements. It was 1993 and she had just moved back to New York from Paris where she had lived for a few years, not working in fashion. Now she was hoping to rebuild her business...