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...most measures the White House is serene and especially beautiful in the crisp fall air. Gary Walters, the exuberant veteran head usher, who keeps the building that way, is following President George W. Bush's exhortation to keep life normal. "We're going after the cobwebs we miss when we get too busy," he declared He has learned to live with all the recent attempts - by private plane, truck and individual - to breach White House security. He is on that front line...
Nicole B. Usher ’03-04, a Crimson editor, is a history concentrator in Cabot House. She is currently interning for the Boston Globe...
...enough to remember black-and-white TV, you saw the footage the last go-round: federal judges ordering all-white universities in the South to open their doors to blacks. But in the new millennium, the sides have flipped. Now the schools are the ones trying to usher in minority students with broad affirmative-action policies. And the courts--and, in California, voters and the regents--have been striking down those policies...
First, the bad taste. Never mind that tickets for the shows ranged from $45 to $2,500. That was positively classy compared with the first two hours of the Friday-night event. After the show opened with an energetic version of Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' by Usher, Mya and Whitney Houston, Marlon Brando brought things to a halt by sitting onstage in a La-Z-Boy and bathing in a full minute of silence. Then he said, "You may be saying, 'Who's that fat f___ sitting there?' I took one whole minute because I wanted to realize that...
...four-oven version, and an add-on module with two conventional ovens. The castings for the Aga, first imported into Britain in 1929, are supplied by the historic Coalbrookdale foundry in Shropshire, where in 1709 iron was first smelted with coke rather than charcoal, thus helping to usher in the industrial age. Hand-finished right through to its glossy enameled surface, the Aga does not come cheap. At between $7,000 and $15,000, the Aga is at home in big country kitchens full of damp dogs and drying riding gear. But the stove has also become a fashion accessory...