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...dozen rejections later, she went to dinner at a small steak restaurant in Arlington, Va., a “down and dirty 45-seat place with an open kitchen.” When the chef came to her table that night, McCulla explained her interest in cooking, one fostered by years of helping her family in the kitchen, a semester abroad in Paris, and other gastro-centric international travels. She asked if she could work there. The chef, thinking it over for a moment, replied, “You show up on Saturday and I’ll give...
...safe to carry a handgun on the streets, the umbrella menace remains unspoken in the halls of our out-of-touch government. In fact, members of Congress may be seen regularly strolling through security brashly waving their umbrellas. Last March, an aide to Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) provoked an uproar when he accidentally tried to bring a pistol into a Senate office building. Sadly, the national media has taken a far more tepid interest in the scores of umbrellas that enter the building each...
MALCOLM G. ROSS, ANNANDALE, VA...
...soothe tensions within the Western alliance. As the senior Western European leader and the one with perhaps the best ties to the U.S., Thatcher feels she can be of great help. For example, it was the Prime Minister who suggested at last month's Williamsburg, Va., summit meeting that the leaders of the world's seven key industrial nations en-agreement is reached with the Soviets by the end of the year...
...talent and the truth from which it springs should not be denied. We can only hope that she learns to rectify the struggle that feeds her art without somehow letting the art excuse or enable her personal maelstrom. Regardless, she's a modern great, period. K. Wilson, HAMPTON, VA...