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...bridges." Further north, the Canal St.-Martin attracts a bohemian, red-checked tablecloth crowd, while the Pont des Arts footbridge spanning the Seine is a hot spot for more liquid picnics. American Mary Gallagher, a longtime resident, has been throwing champagne-and-crudit?s gatherings there?"the prettiest vista in Paris"?for years. Technically, picnicking in the city center is forbidden, notes a town hall spokesperson, but in practice it's tolerated in small groups and even large ones are commonplace. "We've had up to 100 people at a time, but the authorities are very tolerant," Gallagher says. "The police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Loveliest Dining Room | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...bridges." Further north, the Canal St.-Martin attracts a bohemian, red-checked tablecloth crowd, while the Pont des Arts footbridge spanning the Seine is a hot spot for more liquid picnics. American Mary Gallagher, a longtime resident, has been throwing champagne-and-crudités gatherings there - "the prettiest vista in Paris" - for years. Technically, picnicking in the city center is forbidden, notes a town hall spokesperson, but in practice it's tolerated in small groups and even large ones are commonplace. "We've had up to 100 people at a time, but the authorities are very tolerant," Gallagher says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Loveliest Dining Room | 9/30/2004 | See Source »

...move with the characters. When a character is required to climb the stairs to the attic, she only has to walk on one spot while the 'house' sweeps down past her - and when she reaches the attic, one screen shows its cluttered interior, while two others depict a vista of roofs and chimneys outside. It's frenetic, it's dizzying, it's the first show ever to give me motion sickness. Gee-whiz technology has its place in the theater, but here it often distracts from a serious tale of three wronged women. Apart from the titular woman in white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damsel In Distress | 9/19/2004 | See Source »

...seem unlikely that Taylor was going to continue to pursue an Olympic career, especially after she was offered a high-level position with The Gap following her completion of the executive training program. Instead, she decided to move to Chula Vista, Calif., to train at the Olympic Training Center, in the hopes of making the Olympic team...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taylor Set For Athens Glory | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

...Iraq, risked his neck driving oil tankers in battle-scarred cities like Fallujah for $8 a day because he could find no equally lucrative work in the Philippines. "I knew Iraq was dangerous," he says, "but I had no choice." Back home in his ramshackle village of Buena Vista, his high profile hasn't provided him with a job. "I don't know what I'm going to do here," he frets. Arroyo saved his life. Now her challenge is to make life better for millions of Filipinos just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going For Broke? | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

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