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...true that animals higher up the food chain are more hazardous to eat—since they tend to ingest and accumulate more chemicals—but dog meat is no more dangerous than shellfish and hardly merits its own special ban. And as for the latter, as any Parisian will tell you, the world’s dog population is hardly in danger...
...characters included a creepy show host (Hessel E. Yntema ’09) who frighteningly resembles Hugh Scully, an eccentric, bangled appraiser (Kimberly D. Hagan ’09), and a guileless bird connoisseur (Jon-Mark Overvold ’09) on a mission to get his nifty Parisian telescope appraised. In a brilliant moment, Overvold snaps out of a nap wondering, “Have I been abducted by carnies again?”In the best-delivered scene of the show, two elderly sisters (Zoe K. Kawaller ’09 and Anna C. Smith...
...side of the room, ensconced on a banquette with some Parisian notables, was Franois-Henri Pinault, the affable CEO of PPR (formerly Pinault-Printemps Redoute), which owns Bottega Veneta and other high-end brands such as Gucci. At the center table, surrounded by furniture dealers and a smattering of old friends, sat Tomas Maier, 49, the German-born creative director of Bottega Veneta and the designer largely responsible for ushering in a profitable countertrend of subtlety and refinement to the overblown, logo-besotted luxury market. The mood he had created for the dinner jibed seamlessly with the mood...
...takes you along the Seine from the Eiffel Tower to the historic Marais district. After sampling the sights of the Boulevard St. Germain, one of the world's most elegant shopping streets, enjoy the Marais' narrow streets and renovated mansions, much in vogue now among the Parisian in crowd. In the Rue des Rosiers, sample some of the capital's best Jewish food. Cost: $1.70. Journey time: about 30 min. Rome: Take Linea 3 (normally a tram route but partially serviced by a bus until the fall) from Trastevere for a tour of ancient Rome and neighborhoods ranging from Testaccio...
...sloppily label "ultraliberalism." Such unholy alliances have characterized France's numerous civil wars. In 1358, the jacqueries (peasant uprisings), which gave birth to the modern state, united peasants against the nobility. The nobility, in turn, revolted to protect their privileges against the growing power of the state and the Parisian bourgeoisie, who wanted to create an English-style monarchy controlled by a representative assembly. Similarly, in 1648, the stone-throwing agitators who set off the civil war known as the Fronde ended up giving birth to the centralized state of Louis XIV by rallying another strange coalition: civil servants, already...