Word: rigueur
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Such forced linguistic assimilation at Harvard is still commonplace. While there are certainly undergraduates and faculty members from locales such as Medford, where the Boston accent is de rigueur, I have yet to hear the hub’s trademark non-rhoticity on campus. This does not mean that everyone strives to sound like Tom Brokaw...
...district, a 10-minute taxi ride from the center, is Addis in Dar, an Ethiopian restaurant that serves calm-and culture-with its cuisine. On the upper floor in an old colonial house, soulful African music plays to a backdrop of traditional handicrafts and jewelry for sale, and de rigueur pictures of the "Lion of Judah," Emperor Haile Selassie, in his safari suit. The mesop-Ethiopian tables woven from colored straw-are outside under the palm trees. Soft light is diffused through red and orange velvet umbrellas, and the air is filled with an exotic mix of frankincense, mosquito coils...
...center, is Addis in Dar, an Ethiopian restaurant that serves calm - and culture - with its cuisine. On[an error occurred while processing this directive] the upper floor in an old colonial house, soulful African music plays to a backdrop of traditional handicrafts and jewelry for sale, and de rigueur pictures of the "Lion of Judah," Emperor Haile Selassie, in his safari suit...
...million museum complex. "When you look at it, you may not know what it is," he muses. "But you know it isn't a social-security center." You may not even think museum on second glance, for this building intentionally swears off the pomp and grandeur that is de rigueur for big French state projects. As well it should, for its delicate purpose is to pull together France's collection of 300,000 artistic and cultural artifacts from Asia, the Americas, Africa and Oceania without a whiff of ex-imperial condescension. It will be the most visible Parisian legacy...
...happens, it's illegal in much of Europe to say such outlandish things: Fallaci currently faces trial in Italy for defaming Islam. At least in the U.S., Coulter is not threatened with prosecution for being Coulter, but as I read Talbot's piece I wondered why the de rigueur intellectual response to Coulter in the U.S. is to dismiss her automatically...