The all-female team in Hollande's office is equally happy to give a guided tour of his office, with its yellow painted walls, royal blue doors and contrasting blue frames, impeccably arranged desk and spotless conference table.
He decreed that, from now on, the International Committee for the Red Cross must have access to all detainees in U.S. custody; the Bush Administration barred the Red Cross from seeing prisoners held by the C.I.A. Sitting at a spotless conference table in an undecorated West Wing corner office up a narrow flight of stairs from the Oval Office, Craig, who is sixty-three, seemed boyish and energized.
At one of the equally spotless white tables, a nervous-looking client, a casually dressed man of about 30, was writing a list of properties on a pad of paper, as a negotiator watched from the chair opposite.
William had no girlfriends in high school, and his mother once sat him down at the table in her spotless kitchen and asked if he was gay.
On a table in his spotless office lies a mobile laboratory, the contents of which are expected to play a significant role in tackling a major health problem in Tajikistan – anaemia.
The top floor of the titanic new Chancellery, the full bar arrayed on the table, the (as yet spotless) ashtrays, Angela's humorous and particularizing smile.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The spotless cafeteria is fashionably furnished with fluorescent orange and lime green tables, and there are table tennis and foosball tables in the basement.
"It's a 'bring your pet and do it yourself' or a 'call your groomer' space," Ms. Frumkes says of the spotless tiled room equipped with a large blow-dryer table and a deep stainless-steel sink.
The sparse dormitories are spotless, and in one huge hallway, two Ping-Pong tables stand ready, nets taut.
At the neighboring table, a couple of meat market foremen in spotless white coats sniffily appraise my state.
