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Political version of a room of one's own: on one's own in a room.
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flickr.com — President Barack Obama talks with King Abdullah II of Jordan during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office, April 26, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph.
W. does not entirely look like he's in on the joke here. flickr.com/photos/whiteho…
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flickr.com — President Barack Obama laughs with former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, prior to the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, April 25, 2013.
@DanAmira flickr.com/photos/whiteho… i see some feigned interest ...
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flickr.com — President Barack Obama looks at a piece of a wood-alternative fuel made from biomass waste while touring projects presented at the White House Science Fair in the East Garden of the White House, April 22, 2013.
Obama misses Robert Gibbs. flickr.com/photos/whiteho…
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flickr.com — Press Assistant Marie Aberger reacts as President Barack Obama adjusts framed photographs in the Lower Press Office of the White House, April 19 2013. Josh Earnest, Principal Deputy Press Secretary, works in his office at left.
@kevinroose Neither. Quotation.
@kevinroose The word Brobdingnagian appears twice in my Gmail and once was a chat w/ Joe. Not from today!
What is the most oft-used unusual word? My nomination is Brobdingnagian. (This is not a subtweet, @kevinroose! )
I haven't been to the big-space West (yet), but I love the idea that it means, in fact, "surrendering to smallness." travel.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/tra…
A Case for Getting Far, Far Away
travel.nytimes.com — For a decade now I've been obsessed with one of the most overlooked patches of real estate on the American Monopoly board - a place I've never even seen and that you've probably never heard of called Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve. Aniakchak, which is in Alaska, is the least-visited of the 401 National Park Service properties.
"The Cindy Sherman of our political class." nytimes.com/2013/05/19/nyr…
Christine Quinn’s Cloudy Revelation
nytimes.com — The current issue of Vogue features a portrait of the mayoral contender Christine C. Quinn standing on the steps of the New York Public Library with a windswept lift to her pageboy, wearing beige stilettos and a cobalt blue sheath designed by Carolina Herrera.
Lotta people talking about how "the cover-up is worse than the crime." Guess I'm not the only one trying to spot-clean silk today!
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