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...went into further spasms when I learned that Holworthy had been built in 1812, that my spacious room had two window seats overlooking the North Yard, and that time had been gentle to the names carved into the window frames. I could make out "Dinsmoor '00" as well as more recent initials from...
...year progressed, achieved "friend" status for me and my roommate, Sonya. Not only did the tree provide shade for daydreaming and procrastinating, it also became the final resting place of Sonya's pepper plant. Her miniature plant had attempted suicide not once, but twice by leaping from our window sill...
...recalls the mansion's past, the various additions made through the centuries, some of them amusingly botched. Seamlessly, she shifts to her family's life within its walls, how her three children enjoy biking through Phoenix Park, how she came to put a light in the family kitchen window -- the Irish symbolic welcome home to those who have emigrated. When the session is over and the President has slipped away as quietly as she arrived, everyone is beaming. A white-haired lady sighs with satisfaction and breathes, "Isn't she someone to be proud...
...nonexecutive President, Robinson has little real power; her only crucial role is to intervene if she believes that any proposed legislation is unconstitutional. But immediately upon her election in late 1990, Robinson showed that she understood the enduring importance of symbols. From the candle in the kitchen window -- once a sign of welcome to the "tatiehokers," men who went to Scotland to harvest potatoes -- she has created a highly visible office, representing her countrymen at their best. She is now easily the most popular figure in the country, drawing crowds everywhere in her ceaseless crisscrossing of the land...
...When you celebrate something in America, you break a window and grab something. When people have an excuse to loot, they loot...