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...everything," Vasily continued, "our economy, our affairs, our poor lives." He pushed himself away from the table, yanking the end of the tablecloth he had mistaken for a napkin and tucked into his trousers. As plates flew through the air and exploded on the floor all around him, a wheel of black bread bounced onto its edge and rolled slowly out the kitchen door...
...truly the only tenable reasons for having public religious displays, we owe it to ourselves to scrutinize our religious showpieces. Is a tree the best way to share Christmas with other students? Speaking as a Jew, I can tell you that the unimpressive candelabra that rests on a white tablecloth in Leverett House would not be my pick. Neither are "Mysterious Maccabees." But a Seder, the traditional Passover meal during which Jews retell the story of the exodus from Egypt, might be. A model Seder might be a wonderful house program that would allows Jews to share their heritage with...
...White House guards like Prussian police, he might have survived Watergate. There would have been no need for the fashion-obsessed Nancy Reagan to debase herself at a Gridiron Club dinner dressed up like a bag lady in hand-me-downs if the East Wing had not declared a tablecloth crisis and ordered new hand-painted china inscribed "Nancy" the minute she moved in. George Bush got most of the symbols right, except for the pork rinds and country music. Like not inhaling, those proclivities, even if genuine, should have been kept secret because they are too out of synch...
...flies into Washington for the Inauguration, having studied closely the biographies of past First Ladies for guidance, Hillary Clinton may vow not to go to Cabinet meetings and take notes, declare a tablecloth crisis or order up a set of gold-rimmed china. She may carefully find a way to chart a new course. But however circumspect, she will make her own mistakes. And if history is any guide, for reasons as old as Adam and Eve, some Americans will punish her for them out of proportion to their significance...
...resembled none of these. Instead, we beheld two clean-cut yuppies in pin-striped suits two introduced themselves as Larry and Steve. They ushered us into the neat, pastel-saturated meeting room and offered us a beverage of our choice. The drinks were on a table set with a tablecloth, doilies and long-stemmed water glasses, the chairs were lined up in neat little rows...