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Greater Seattle may be best known around the world for Microsoft, Starbucks and rock bands like Nirvana, but residents know it for something less flashy: its rich stock of wild salmon. Last week the Federal Government, noting that that stock is running dangerously low, placed seven types of salmon and two types of trout on its list of threatened or endangered species. Never before has the regulatory machinery of the Endangered Species Act been turned on so large or heavily populated an area. Saving the fish from extinction will require sacrifices from Seattle, Portland, Ore., and the surrounding counties...
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was the last great society portraitist--the Van Dyck of his time, as Auguste Rodin was the first to say. Twenty years ago, to confess an admiration (however sneaking) for his work was to invite incredulity. Sargent? That flatterer of the Edwardian rich? That fat-cat holdover, that facile topographer of the social Alps, that living irrelevance to the concerns of modernism? But what goes around comes around. Sargent's reputation is back as though it had never gone away. Once again, if one can judge from the attendance at the Sargent show...
This culinary misconception, a paradox widely known but rarely admitted in polite conversation, is a carbon copy of the European counterpart. In the US we adore fresh Italian pasta and rich French desserts to no end, while Europeans, especially the youth, flock to crowded McDonald's for the phony Le Big Mac and outrageously overpriced American soft drinks. As far as we are concerned, River folk should indulge their xenophobia at the over-commercialized Friday's Americana Bar and leave us to enjoy traditional European pub life at Christopher's and Cambridge Common...
...year-round. Wearing all that wool, how could they be expected to exploit workers? Settling temporarily in northern Florida, Flagler and Co. moved farther south, eventually stumbling upon the small Barrier Island of Palm Beach. One hundred years later the island of Palm Beach is still where the mega-rich go to escape the grind of winter life in East Egg. Easily bored, they have gone out of their way to cram as much bacchanalian debauchery into one island as possible...
...come into fame as the star of HBO's sublime series The Sopranos, the story of a suburban mafioso's efforts to deal with an identity crisis. The show shares the premise of the current hit film Analyze This, but unlike that comedy The Sopranos has a rich life beyond the wackiness of its conceit. For help with his troubles, Gandolfini's Tony Soprano--overburdened Mob manager, conflicted husband, beleaguered son--attends sessions with Lorraine Bracco's Dr. Melfi in scenes that betray the exhaustiveness, risibility and discomfiture of the 50-min. experience in a way that movies and television...