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...agreed, so the phrase it's pushing instead is "equal shared parental responsibility." That means separated parents agreeing to discuss, as equals, important issues about their children - what schools they attend, what sports they play. It means parents agreeing to notify each other of big events - speech nights and gala days - and both being welcomed by the other to attend, regardless of whose watch they fall...
...prepared for two packed days starting on the morning of Friday, Jan. 28, and ending sometime in the wee hours on Sunday as Saturday night's gala grand dinner winds down. The days offer ample opportunity for tasting wines from the 42 Central Otago wineries as well as those from some international guests, which this year include the British wine writer Jancis Robinson and some famous Burgundy producers. Many of the local bottles are quite rare and never make it out of the area, unless they are packed home in a suitcase. There are also winery visits, intense debates about...
...after World War II, when Dali began a long effort to reconcile his new passions--physics and religion--his reputation began its serious decline. And it can't be denied that his newly rediscovered Catholic piety led to some cheesy and meretricious paintings, like the portraits of his wife Gala as the Virgin. But it also produced the magnificent crucifixions of the early 1950s. With its sources in Zurbarán, Caravaggio and Velázquez, and with its hint of movie-camera angles that never quite happened in the movies, Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubicus) is one of the handful of truly powerful...
...took a side unapologetically--Carson ribbed him on a 1978 show as "a little to the right of the Orkin exterminator." Carson held his politics close and kept his jokes nonpartisan. (A rare time that he did anything remotely political was when he hosted Reagan's 1981 pre-Inauguration gala...
...rewire the charge that a $40 million party was too gaudy for wartime, the night before the Inauguration was devoted to a salute to soldiers and service, although that gala was followed by the Texas Black Tie & Boots Ball, complete with live armadillos and Bevo--the University of Texas' longhorn steer--20,000 yellow roses and cowboy boots dipped in silver as centerpieces. On Inaugural Night, President and Mrs. Bush waltzed through nine balls in record time, belying their song, I Could Have Danced All Night, before heading back to the White House by 10:03 --1 1/2 hours ahead...