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  • Keep Those Paws Off My Pajamas

    Diane Girard writes: "There are pajamas I will not wear. I no longer buy the ones with critters on them. I have tried — but the animals disturbed me. I do not want to wear pink frilly nightwear either because then I feel silly, as if I’m stuck in a time warp at a pajama party."

  • More Than Meets the Eye: Piercings, Tattoos, Comb-Overs, Droopy Pants

    Liz Flaherty writes, "There are a host of things I don’t mind. Skimpy tops with body parts
    hanging out — although I must confess to jealousy here; I’d give my
    earring collection to have the kind of body that looks good in those
    tops."

  • CultureWatch

    In this issue:

    The Private Patient by Baroness P.D. James holds our interest by the discovery of not just the who-dun-it, but the complex motives behind the actions. Anyone who loves dogs and brilliant descriptive writing will find Sawtelle rewarding. Wallace Stegner’s Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs demonstrates that as a writer of style and elegance, he has few equals. Rancho Weirdo by Laura Chester contains humor in these tales that is integral, not incidental, and they are wonderfully irreverent (more…)

  • CultureWatch, February 2009

    The Private Patient
    by Baroness P.D. James holds our interest by the discovery of not just
    the who-dun-it, but the complex motives behind the actions. Anyone who
    loves dogs and brilliant descriptive writing will find Sawtelle rewarding. Wallace Stegner’s Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs demonstrates that as a writer of style and elegance, he has few equals. Rancho Weirdo by Laura Chester contains humor that is integral, not incidental, and they are wonderfully irreverent tales.

  • Financial Stability Plan

    Treasury Secy. Timothy Geithner released a statement concerning the basic form of the Financial Stability Plan. Aside from that brief outline, he announced a new website called FinancialStability.gov, which holds a fact sheet with more details.

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  • Amha Goes to the Inauguration

    John Malone writes: Born in a remote Ethiopian village, Amha had been sold by his father to a traveling trader, survived in the mean streets of Addis Ababa and now stood with his adopted father witnessing a historic event on the Mall.

  • Inaugural Journal, Tuesday: Touring the Outskirts

    Jo Freeman writes,
    "Eight groups had been given NPS permits for ‘first amendment activity’
    on January 20. I paused at a media check-in to shed a tear for the seat
    on the press riser that I didn’t get and went on my way."

  • Inaugural Journal, Waiting to Party

    Jo Freeman writes:  "
    I did have my Obama moment. It was late at night on a dark DC street,
    but I didn’t have to wait for hours in the cold, or be crushed by a
    crowd, or even buy a ticket."

  • Inaugural Journal, Monday

    Jo Freeman writes, "Monday was Martin Luther King Day; It was a good day to protest, even if there wasn’t anything to protest about:
    Celebrating ‘The End of an Error,’ the Raging Grannies sang to the
    crowd and Code Pink did the Can-Can, as in ‘Yes We Can-Can End War, a
    take-off on ‘Yes We Can’."

  • Inaugural Journal, Sunday

    Jo Freeman writes, "The combination of the first African American elected President
    followed by Pete Seeger, the 89-year-old folksinger who had been
    convicted for ‘contempt of Congress’ in the year Obama was born, made
    one believe that the Sixties had triumphed after all."