Brown banquettes upholstered in what the French euphemistically call moleskin but North Americans know as leatherette line both walls of the long, narrow railroad-car-like dining room, and there's a little bar just inside the front door where your bill is tallied and taxis are called.

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At the back of the assembly hall in Little Haiti, a Democratic aide sulked furiously: it was as though Republicans had marched into his dining room and helped themselves to the first course.

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