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Windmills are found everywhere, on tea-towels, T-shirts, or fridge magnets so that when you go the fridge to take out a slice of Dutch cheese (Edam or Gouda) you’ll be able to think back wistfully to your trip.
(One wistfully pictures the lab technicians of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, with their beakers and flasks.)
Best leaks over the weekend: 1) Documents indicate that John Huang's real-estate holding company funneled Indonesian money into U.S. campaigns ( Washington Post ); 2) Clinton personally lobbied the Democratic National Committee's finance chairman to hire Huang in 1995 ( New York Times ). Pundits wistfully alluded to the 25 th anniversary of Watergate and regretted that the current scandal doesn't measure up.
recalls one ex- Vogue staffer wistfully.