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After weeks of debate and a last-minute round of desperate wheeling, dealing and politicking over Social Security--the perennial political hot potato--the Senate failed to pass a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. The Republican leadership came up one vote shy of the two-thirds majority required when they failed to persuade the one Republican holdout, Oregon's Mark Hatfield, or either of North Dakota's two Democratic Senators to switch sides. The Democratic leadership had little time to celebrate its victory, however; the day after the vote, Colorado Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a longtime supporter...
...gravity. Without a cosmological constant, said the equations, the universe would have to be either contracting or expanding-which it didn't seem to be. It was only when Edwin Hubble discovered, a decade later, that it was indeed expanding that Einstein dropped the constant like a hot potato...
Tabitha A. Shanies '98 of Roslyn, New York has a hard time finding something good to say about the New York Deli meal. "What was at the New York Deli again? Oh yeah, those potato pancakes. They were gummy and seemed like they were five years old and had just defrosted," Shanies grumbles, "They must think that all New Yorkers eat fatty, disgusting stuff. Some of that stuff does exist, but that's not what we eat all the time,...and the real stuff certainly doesn't taste like that." Shanies's friend, Benjamin W. Chauncey...
These portraits introduce charmingly aphoristic essays filled with lively, unexpected detail (did you know that Andean peasants can identify 300 varieties of potato?). In the town of Cognac, which produces a world-famous, tongue-loosening brandy, Zeldin asked a housewife, With whom do you have your most useful talks? Her answer, "With my dog. He really understands me." This anecdote leads into Zeldin's discussion of conversation and of one of his heroes, Socrates. In an age when monologue was dominant-gods or kings lectured while common folk listened-Socrates developed the revolutionary notion of the dialogue. Another conversational revolutionary...
...entering the cafe, one is greeted by a raging battle of aromas, between the savory Panini house blend coffee, which is constantly brewing, and straight-out-of-the-oven breads. Sourdough rounds, baguettes, Vienna loaves, lemon scones and focaccia are among Panini's standards. Specials include such delicacies as potato loaves, onion focaccia and crushed olive rolls, all obviously fresh and exceptionally well priced. A variety of pound cakes, cookies and giant biscotti lay on the counter; a friendly, exuberant staff sits behind it. Besides staple deli drinks such as IBC root beer and cream soda, they offer "Fresh Samantha...