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Though in the intervening decades Waters has tried to maintain her civic ties. Chez Panisse has gone from struggling bistro to acclaimed restaurant, where the prix-fixe meal now runs about $65. Waters has even published a series of Chez Panisse cookbooks. And while she still promotes social change, that change is now primarily culinary; after entertaining Bill Clinton in 1993, Waters wrote to him: "We can mobilize a small army of restaurateurs across the country who share a common belief that the choices we make about what we eat can transform our society." Guerilla restaurateurs...
...addition to Takemitsu has received honorary doctorates from University of Leeds and University of Durham and prizes as the Prix International de Maurice Ravel and the Culture Award...
...interests were always arty. During her senior year in college she won Vogue's Prix de Paris, a contest that awarded the winner a year in Paris and an internship with the magazine. Her essay was on the great Russian ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev, among others. Diaghilev was a shrewd, sophisticated choice, bound to knock the glossy's one-upping editors back on their heels. Says a Jackie watcher of impeccable credentials: "You could talk with her about Baudelaire, but not about Cromwell...
...headed off to Miss Porter's School, an ultra-posh boarding school, with her own horse. Two years at Vassar followed, but Jackie was too restless to thrive in the leafy confines of a Poughkeepsie, New York, campus. She finished college at George Washington University and, spurning the Prix de Paris offers, began her job as the Inquiring Photographer for the Washington Times-Herald...
Many of the drivers on the Grand Prix circuit blamed a spate of crashes this season on an effort by the International Federation of Automobiles (FIA), Formula One's Paris-based governing body, to sharpen competition by banning the use of high-tech devices thought to give the richer racing teams an unfair advantage. In doing so, the drivers charged, the federation had made the sport far more dangerous. Senna himself had expressed misgivings even before the start of the season. "It's a great error to remove the electronics from the cars," he said. "The cars are very fast...