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Dinner-party diplomacy didn't suit George Washington's palate. While the food was good--"roast beef, veal, turkey, ducks, fowls, jams, etc.; puddings, jellies, oranges, apples, nuts, almonds, figs, raisins, and a variety of wines and punch," recorded one guest--the host often sat in complete silence. It fell to others to set the table for key compromises in Washington's first term. When the first Congress reached an impasse over two issues--where to locate the permanent capital city and how to pay off the Revolutionary War debt--Thomas Jefferson asked Alexander Hamilton and James Madison to share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dinner-Party Diplomacy | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...phenomenal dim sum at famous Hong Kong eateries, traditional and painstakingly elaborate multi-course meals in Kyoto, and roast duck at a world-renowned restaurant in Beijing. The last one even gave us a numbered certificate with our meal, in case we doubted the fowl's authenticity...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: Street Food | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

...beauty of the Geico spots is that they play the characters perfectly straight. There are no club-wielding or fire-inventing jokes. The cavemen play tennis, they go to therapists, they order roast duck with mango salsa. As allegorical stand-ins for minorities, they're more complex than the aggrieved parties usually are in sitcoms. They're not boisterous Al Sharpton firebrands but peevish, passive-aggressive, neurotic yuppies. They do what good TV characters should: they confound expectations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's an Ad. But Is It Art? | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...water if they did this kind of work-up on a tennis leg - the same as my teachers would have blasted me. We train hard in medicine is to develop good clinical judgment: a feel for things. It's a lot like what tells a good cook the roast is ready, or a good teacher that the kid nodding in back doesn't really understand. Clinical judgment often makes a doctor do things the "objective tests" do not support. Trusting what you see in the patient more than what you find in the chart is a common exercise of medical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Judgment to the Test | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...elitist residents and their personal swipe-gate from curious outsiders. No one knows the truth about what happens inside, but if any Eliot dude is looking for a date, feel free to let me know. Verdict: Guilty. The Dunster House Formal A few days after the Dunster Goat Roast (kegs, dunk tank, moon bounce, American gladiator, goat carcass) is the D-house Formal. There will be an ice sculpture of a moose, and according to HoCo Chair Avery A. Cavanah ’08 “[they] are actually going to spend a lot more money [this year...

Author: By Elizabeth B. Rose, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Springtime: Open Bars, High Spirits | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

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