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DUET WITH ME'SHELL NDEGE OCELLO...
...hors d'oeuvres were works of art: beautifully seared scallops enveloped in a light, tomato-infused sauce, a delicate, almost-too-lovely-to-eat salad accented by white anchovies, an olive and tomato compote, and escargots oozing with butter. The second course was a triumph: lightly sauteed soft-shell crabs and an arctic char my table-mate dubbed "a sort of impetuous little salmon" (a comment that makes abolutely no sense, but he'd had a couple of glasses of very good Merlot at that point...
...first stage of the roll call, America got its first extended look at Laura Bush, political wife. She took the stage at the convention at 10:05, amidst a rain of confetti and storming applause, and took her place in front of a backdrop of classroom desks filled with shell-shocked kids. Visibly nervous, but smiling bravely, Bush made her way through a speech peppered with references to her husband's dedication to the Texas education system, to her (apparently idyllic) family life, and with a few nods to her in-laws. (George Sr. sat in the audience with Barbara...
Think again. A new France is taking shape at the dawn of the 21st century. Like a newborn chick pecking out of its protective shell, the fledgling is only partly visible--a beak here, a claw there--but already it has begun to reveal a dynamic, high-tech nation in which the old state-controlled system will give way to a more decentralized, privatized and entrepreneurial society. Says former Socialist Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn: "We're becoming a country like any other...
...best-attended Independence Day event occurred at the Hatch Shell near the banks of the Charles River, where an estimated 400,000 spectators gathered at nightfall for music and the dazzling fireworks...