The Versailles bakery next door does great empanadas, fruit juices and Cuban coffee, which is an entirely different beast from the regular American filter variety.

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So it is especially enlightening to hear how he chose Ma Cocotte's furnishings, many of which are from the melting-pot period of the 1940s up to 1955, when Scandinavian and especially American influences began to filter into France.

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The bad news for McCain is that the feared menace of Gustav forced him to lose a day in which he could get across his message, often without filter, to the American people.

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