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After a brief stint living in the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Duke Cosimo I and his wife, Eleonora of Toledo, acquired the palace from the bankrupt Pitti merchant family in 1549 as the Medici’s official residence; it was enlarged and embellished substantially over the centuries.
"It was difficult to sit back and watch the village leaders taking money from the farmers who worked so hard to pay their children's school fees," Maren writes of his Peace Corps stint in Kenya.
Critics applaud Sedaris' tendency to mock both himself (the title essay is about his stint at a nudist camp) and others (he titles a piece about people who picked him up hitchhiking "Planet of the Apes").
Fallows is a writer who strayed into the snakepit of media-executivedom for a brief, unhappy stint.
At age 20, she took 48 sleeping pills during a stint guest-editing Mademoiselle . She was hospitalized, recovered, and went on a Fulbright Scholarship to Cambridge.