Would you salute a flag of beige?

Ho hum. “There was a perception that life here was," said  Hanna Holborn Gray, former president of the University of Chicago, of her institution,  "— I won’t say gray, that’s hard for me — but...

"I had forgotten that I had returned to France for the moment"

An overly enthusiastic apparatchik of the glorious French lay State at its consulate in Atlanta, supervising the polling station there, warned a priest, dressed in his cassock, that he would not let him vote in the second round, next month, if he returned dressed in the same...

So dad, you want this wall painted orange or green?

"So dad, you want this wall painted orange or green? Most kids like to have very large canvases for their tiny crayons. Manu fortunately is content with colour books. So far he has coloured by computer screen and have made an attempt to draw a masterpiece on the TV as well...

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