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...exhausting, this ritual self-interrogation. And then, after all the familiar articles have been written, the cycle starts up again, turning over like the big V-8 in that wasteful sedan we never sold. Gas prices start sliding down again and people go back to driving as they've always driven while listening to the same music on their stereos and tuning out the same discouraging news about global warming, Middle East politics and bumper-to-bumper traffic on the interstates. Crank the Pearl...
...what used to be the Vietnamese restaurant Pho Pasteur in the Garage, the menus remain, the management is the same, but the name is changed. Owner Duyen V. Le, 55, decided to rename his restaurant a few weeks ago to Le’s because he wanted to personalize his four-location chain. Le bought up what he says was an unsuccessful Pho Pasteur on Neelan Street in Boston 14 years ago from another Vietnamese immigrant. He said his menu and management skills helped him reinvigorate the restaurant, and he opened four more locations throughout the city and in Cambridge...
...postmodern farce. The play, co-directed by Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 and Jess R. Burkle ’06, utilized an amusing frame narrative, beginning with a woman’s (Birnbaum) visit to a French barber, Mr. Guillotine (Burkle). In this version, written by Adam V. Cline ’02, it is hair that matters above all else: the luscious hair of the aristocracy is the symbol of their power, and it must thus be cut off by retributive French peasants (“It just didn’t seem fair that some people...
...developed there. We don't have the same kind of problems, but that's partly because Lascaux has shown the importance of limiting visitation and keeping a close eye on the cave's condition." The same precautions are maintained at font de gaume, a cave located just down the Vézère valley from Lascaux. Privately-owned Tuc d'Audoubert and Trois Freres have never admitted tourists. Rouffignac, another privately-owned cave 25 km west of Lascaux, has a natural advantage: its massive size. The cave's owners installed an electric train through some...
President George W. Bush stunned Washington on Friday by accepting the resignation of CIA Director Porter J. Goss, and Republican sources told TIME that the White House plans to name his replacement on Monday: Air Force General Michael V. Hayden, who as Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence has been a visible and aggressive defender of the administration's controversial eavesdropping program. His nomination is sure to reignite the battle over the program on Capitol Hill, where one House Democrat promises "a partisan food fight" during the confirmation process...