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They keep their promises, these Bec-Fin people. Precisely 15 minutes later, we were seated in the salmon-and-gilt main dining room. The place was packed with men in high-end suits and women in cashmere sweater sets, and I experienced a moment of panic, wishing I'd had a chance to pick up my pearls before I'd set out. Not to worry; the staff were warm and welcoming, even to the underdressed, and the fat cats were meowing and purring too much to notice...
...Right, but that was a different job I was doing. When I was at the endowment, my main interest was in preserving the integrity of scholarship. When I was there, we were at the apogee of the time when people were rejecting the notion that scholarship should be objective or balanced. That seemed to me to present lots and lots of problems to a government agency funding scholarship. Because once you reject the notion that scholarship shouldn't be objective or strive for balance, then what you are funding are things that have a viewpoint. And what's the government...
Admittedly, Eastern Market is the nicest part of Southeast. Forming the southern half of Capitol Hill, the neighborhood is anchored by a giant red warehouse that turns into a vibrant flea market on the weekends. A number of shops, restaurants and bars line Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street, the main thoroughfares. Townhouses, some dating from the early 1800s, hug the side streets, home to the typical (at least for the District) army of government workers. In other words, Eastern Market is a lot like Georgetown...
...Privacy advocates were a little less thrilled. The main beef: Although consumers will now be allowed to opt out of the collection of anonymous data on the Internet for the purpose of profiling, they'll have to exert some effort...
...Main Stay MAP-Equity...