Word: suppers
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...Manhattan's Supper Club, Angelina Jolie--humanitarian, Oscar winner, erstwhile wearer of a vial of Billy Bob Thornton's blood--is scheduled to speak about Sierra Leone. It's a benefit dinner for Witness, a group that has been chronicling abuses in the war-torn African country--slaughter, rape, the drafting of child soldiers. So, naturally, a swarm of cameras are there to get her take on the big issue of the day: Isn't she, like, totally excited that Brad Pitt has decided to adopt her two kids...
...such performance illustrates the rather conservative politics of The Club. After a “most welcome and delicious” supper in 1911, the girls wrote a short play about the suffrage movement. In it, the protagonist, Mr. Frothingham—played by a member wearing a man’s suit—tries to write a speech. Four uppity Suffragettes disturb him, but his “sweet secretary”—who is totally crushing on him—pities the guy. He tries to give his speech in Radcliffe Yard, but is rudely...
...fraternization. But proponents of dining hall restrictions, more often than not, fail to engage the real issue that underlies the purported need for the restrictions themselves: the lack of any real desire, on the part of most undergraduates, to go “home” for their supper. Closing House dining halls to non-residents will hardly make people suddenly feel attached to their Houses. After all, if House communities were strong enough to breed real attachment, most students would presumably avoid “dining out” in the first place.Then there?...
...Gutenberg, meet my little brother. He is a not-so-lean, preteen, book-loathing student of the fifth grade. Even when bribed to read with a late bedtime, cookies and milk—for him, the equivalent of a postponed death sentence and a last supper at Ruth’s Chris—he abstains, staring all too wistfully at the nearest blank television screen. So in searching for a way to challenge his plastic mind without turning him and it off, this summer I found a surprising solution: The Cartoon Network show “Family...
...Wilson was chosen not for his expertise but because his wife was trying to help him stay in the game? Certainly Rove distorted her role when he claimed she had authorized the trip. "She was not in a position to send Joe Wilson anywhere except to bed without his supper," says Larry Johnson, a Plame classmate at the CIA who later worked on Central American issues for the agency and then moved to the State Department as a counterterrorism officer. According to a declassified July 7, 2004, report from the Senate Intelligence Committee, it was Plame's boss, the deputy...