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Baby boutiques and department stores are featuring nursery lines with curvilinear high chairs, sleek wooden rockers and oval-shaped cribs that would make modernist masters Charles and Ray Eames feel at home. "It used to be unheard of to have anything but a pink or blue nursery," says Trish Holbrook-Meyler, owner of Modern Nursery, an online boutique whose sales have risen 84% over the past year. "But today's generation of parents--who tend to be older and more used to their existing décor--are opting for sleeker lines that go with the rest of their furniture...
...ripened tomatoes, and herbed goat cheese and olives. No matter the combo, all paninis are deliciously priced at $6.25. A friend orders a sandwich with prosciutto, mozzarella, and tomatoes on ciabatta. It is enormous, hot, and crispy, a “preemptively pleasing” vision on a simple oval plate. “Eat it?” he says. “I can’t even get my mouth around it!” CRITICAL ACCLAIMA self-admitted foodie, Kelby J. Russell ’09 gushes about Basta Pasta’s dishes...
...starts like this: six students sitting around an oval table, eyes on the projector screen, faces barely visible in the sodden light of an early March morning. Their dress is standard-issue—black wind pants, olive green windbreakers, and gray T-shirts. They are attentive. They are quiet. They are getting a lesson in warfare from the Spartan King Leonidas...
...snapshot of the pair standing together. In another picture, Iraqi president Jalal Talabani gives O’Sullivan a kiss on the cheek at the UN General Assembly meeting in 2006. A third shows O’Sullivan briefing a serious-looking President Bush in the Oval Office...
...Johnson, for example: his experience as a master legislator no doubt helped as he steered his historic civil rights and welfare agenda to passage. By the end of two years as President, however, "he was out of gas," recalls Johnson aide Harry McPherson. The longer Johnson was in the Oval Office, the more feckless his presidency became...