white trousers are a constitutional right and lunch remains a reason- able place to discuss hedge funds. Limiting the flight to Saturdays was thoughtful, allowing both coasts all day Sunday to recover from six hours of hearing, “Back home, we do things rather differently.” While United tests cultural diplo- macy, the Town Council has been practicing some verbal engineering of its own. The council intends to keep the property-tax rate at $2.61 per $1,000 of taxable value, but be- cause assessments rose by an average of 9 percent, the town expects to col- lect an additional $9.8 million. Tech- nically, the rate has not increased; practically, the check will be larger, which in Palm Beach is called appre- ciation because that sounds much nicer than taxation. Homestead owners are expected to pay $75 more per $1 million of taxable value, an amount that would barely cover alterations on a pair of trousers but will be discussed with the gravity of a hostile takeover. By cocktails, several residents will have demanded fiscal restraint and ap- proved the limestone for a new guest bathroom. The most compelling civic event came from a recent town traffic no- tice announcing that a northbound lane shift on North County Road was needed to accommodate a crane re- placing a single palm tree. Elsewhere, a tree is cut down and hauled away; in Palm Beach, it undergoes an or- derly transfer of botanical power complete with heavy machinery, traf- fic management and the solemnity of a state funeral. I imagine the departing palm dis- creetly wrapped in neutral canvas, its fronds tied back and its years of ser- vice acknowledged by a small gath- ering in oversized sunglasses. The
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