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...palace, the hotel was torn down in 1965?but not before preservationists managed to dismantle and move a portion to the museum. Visitors can enter the turf stone and brick remains, restored to include a coffee shop, replete with original Wright-designed furnishings. Guests often queue up to slip into rented period costumes for photographs beside the fountain out front...
...apron also represents a woman kept in her place. The pert hostess aprons of the 1950s, with their printed poodles and cheery appliques, might seem these days to have tried too hard to put a good face on things. There are some Americans who would just as soon slip a burqa over their daughter's head, and others for whom an apron draped over a chair is an emblem of strength, survival and sustenance. "The Apron Chronicles" tells both sides of the story...
...from piercing the bull's-eye. "We distract them by singing rude songs," says Tshering Chhoden. "It's all part of the game." Adds her fellow Bhutanese Dhruba Kumar Chhetri: "The best thing to say is that the archer's wife has been sleeping around. That makes his concentration slip a little." Luckily, the modern Olympics give Bhutanese women a chance to do more than warble insults about a man's supposedly wandering wife. As the nation's top female archer, Chhoden, 24, is one of only two athletes representing this Buddhist nation of 600,000 in Athens. Both...
...Shrum had also opposed a Cherny attempt to slip an attack on Bush--for the President's puerile "Bring 'em on" challenge to the Iraqi insurgents--into Kerry's September announcement speech. Now the candidate decided to bring it back as part of a lacerating attack on the President, and it became the Kerry campaign's signature. He launched the new speech at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson dinner on Nov. 15, which marked the rebirth of his campaign. "Suddenly, the decision-making process was incredibly crisp," says a staff member. "It was like dealing with a different...
Sure, I desperately tried to maintain my focus from the seat I had furtively acquired directly behind the Puerto Rican delegation below the Fox News booth. After all, my partner in crime, Lauren A. E. Schuker ’06, also a Crimson editor, and I had to slip into several zones within the FleetCenter in which our security clearance was not quite good enough, and if we abandoned our prime viewing position, we might not be so fortunate the next time around...