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The restaurant lies under a huge skylight, with the sunlight hitting you while you sit comfortably in just-right air conditioning. You might think it is just a pit stop in between stores; it wont be the food is fabulous. The waiters are up to what you would expect from the Four Seasons: prompt, efficient and polite. We decided to go for the Chicken Caesar Salad (LE 45), the Salade Parisienne (LE 45) a Club Sandwich and a Salmon Baguette (LE 49). Not exactly a shopping break, more like a full-on lunch. Pretentious names aside, the variety is up there, with a plethora of salads, sandwiches and full meals to choose from. Ten minutes into our light lunch, the waiter subtly slipped bread and butter on to our table. This is my ultimate test for restaurants, the quality of the bread little baguettes and pieces of toast and the consistency of the butter.
Industry Wrapups
Real estate: Reilly spices up his little slice of downtown S.F. On the money: BofA's Countrywide buy might look like a steal Health care: Pacific Partners taps No. 2 after CEO's mystery exit Enterprise Gateway to growth Small business: Survey: Public supports employer health mandate Small biz how to: Companies punch up profits with fitness programs Entrepreneur profile: Mike Kerwin In Depth: Health, Insurance and Benefits Quietly efficient Employers get blamed for billions in comp fraud Health-care 'report cards' generate confusion PAMF hopes its online info system bucks trend Opinion Our view: Health mandate eats at restaurants and pocketbooks Editor's notebook: Don't try this diet at home Guest opinion: Energy independence trumps fly-fishing Guest opinion: What America needs is a good recession Letter to the editor: S.F.
SPITZER 'GAG' REFLEX
Gov. Spitzer's administration silenced two more top figures in the dirty- tricks scandal - using a highly unusual maneuver that prevented Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's investigators from questioning them, The Post has found. Peter Pope, the governor's close friend and "policy director" who once headed Attorney General Spitzer's criminal division, and Sean Patrick Maloney, the governor's No. 2 administrator, were secretly named "special counsels," even though neither is on the governor's legal staff, sources said. The two were dispatched to "debrief" and coach two central figures in the alleged conspiracy to have the State Police collect damaging information on Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno - Spitzer's chief-of-staff, Richard Baum, and now-suspended communications director, Darren Dopp - as they prepared to answer questions from Cuomo's probers.
Fox Sues Warner Bros. Over Watchmen
20th Century Fox has initiated a legal battle against Warner Bros. over the rights to develop, produce and distribute a film based on the graphic novel Watchmen, says The Hollywood Reporter. On Friday, the studio sued Warner Bros., claiming it holds the exclusive copyrights and contract rights to Watchmen. Warner Bros. plans to release on March 6, 2009 a big-screen version of the popular graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. The film is directed by Zack Snyder (300) and stars Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Stephen McHattie and Matt Frewer. The trade says Fox seeks to enjoin Warner Bros. from going forward with the project, saying in the lawsuit that it seeks to "restrain (Warner Bros.
Microsoft dismisses Becta criticism
Much of Becta's concern is focused on Office 2007, as well as the cost to schools and the difficulty of installing Vista. In a report released on Wednesday, Becta recommended that schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista, or its latest productivity suite, Office 2007. The agency argued there are prohibitive cost and interoperability factors which mean that deployment of either product is not currently a practical option. Becta's main concern with Office 2007 is the potential for difficulties to arise when attempting to read documents created in Office 2007 using older and non-Microsoft applications, such as Office 2003 and OpenOffice. Most poorer households are not yet running Office 2007, the agency said, and so deploying it in schools would risk opening up what Becta referred to as a "digital divide", excluding some pupils from reading documents.
Facebook rocks the vote
CNNU campus correspondent April Daley is a freshman at Northwestern University. CNNU is a feature that provides student perspectives on news and trends from colleges across the United States. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of CNN, its affiliates or the schools where the campus correspondents are based. EVANSTON, Illinois (CNN) -- Rock the Vote uses music and popular culture to get young people involved in politics, so it's probably no surprise that the group is using Facebook to reach plugged-in voters. .
January 2006 - December 2006
Oregon saw some role reversal as liberal and conservative justices stole each other's talking points, argues Robert S. Sargent, Jr. Europe's biotech food ban must end: There is no valid scientific reason for Europe to have banned biogenetically altered food crops from its markets, says Alan Caruba Spain embraces China: Add Spain to China's list of diplomatically conquered roster of allies, writes Frederick W. Stakelbeck Jr. Capote a marvelous achievement: Lady Liberty hasn't love a movie as much as she did Capote for a long time. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the very dull The New World Fathers, sons, and senators: This year, says Vincent Fiore, family will mean a lot when it comes to deciding a few Senate races "Heads" bin Laden wins, (turning) tails, Bush loses: Nancy Salvato has to hand it to Osama bin Laden.
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