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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (5191)	2/11/2004 12:24:51 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7853

"Seems you do not know how funny the idiomatic english language actually is (like the question of is is is)" Yes, your example is simply hilarious. Of course, it is your exquisite command of the language which enables you to find such gelastic gems...

To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (5191)	2/11/2004 7:55:31 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 7853

Lutece Restaurant Closing After 43 Years Wed Feb 11, 8:02 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! NEW YORK - Lutece, the venerable Manhattan temple of fine French dining, announced it would close Saturday after serving a final Valentine's Day (news - web sites) dinner. The restaurant had struggled to meet expenses since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said Michael Weinstein, president Ark Restaurants, which bought the 43-year-old East Side restaurant 10 years ago. The restaurant may also have alienated longtime patrons when it tried to update its menu of traditional French cuisine several years ago, Weinstein said. Chef Andre Soltner presided over the restaurant for 34 years after its opening in 1961, serving such pricey specialties as foie gras with caramelized onions. He left shortly after selling it to Ark in 1994. With Soltner at the reins, Lutece thrived. It was ranked by the Zagat guidebook as America's best restaurant for six consecutive years in the 1980s. Its profile began to decline after Soltner's departure, however. "I'm very upset, but not against Ark," Soltner, now a dean at the French Culinary Institute, told The New York Times. "They were gentlemen. I'm really sorry it failed." Ark opened a second Lutece in 1999 in Las Vegas' Venetian Hotel. It's not closing. "It does very well there," Weinstein said. story.news.yahoo.com