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...culture itself. Paris is the French.Various aspects of Parisian life continue to baffle me (namely the absurd Laundromat prices and taxing public library system.) But one’s first macaron à la rose at Pierre Hermé, a sunny afternoon at Sainte Chapelle, or the escargot at Robert et Louise in the Marais are absolutely and singularly French. And I’m happy to sit back and dream...
...He’s gotten every single question right and faster than everyone on TV,” said Robert I. Padnick ’09, who is also co-president of the Lampoon...
...Blair House that Robert E. Lee turned down Abraham Lincoln's request to lead the Union Army; where General William Tecumseh Sherman married the daughter of the Washington Senator who had adopted him; and where Presidents Martin van Buren and William H. Taft sought Blair's counsel. (Apparently as in real estate, politics too is all about "location, location, location." From his residence at 1651 Pennsylvania Avenue Blair became a "Kitchen Cabinet" member to many a president after Jackson...
...When the Obamas settle in, they'll be greeted by mementos and antiques that commemorate the nation's past - Robert E. Lee's signed resignation to Lincoln, the badge of the policeman who was killed saving Truman's life, the same portraits that hung in the sitting room where the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine were hammered out. Today it also contains furnishings and various bric-a-brac donated by House and Garden, General Electric, and Elizabeth Arden among others. During the Blair House's last facelift, Congress agreed only to pay for its structural improvements. For decorations and other...
...money, their choices. The result is that Congress does a terrific job of spreading dollars around the country like peanut butter but a lousy job of identifying or promoting national priorities. "There's no performance measures, no environmental or economic analysis," says the Brookings Institution's Robert Puentes. "It's just about dividing up the spoils...