The city street sweepers just came by. I mention this only because the Swiss take their street cleaning very seriously. After the street-sweeping machine goes by, two sweeper-men follow with brooms. Not just any brooms. They carry those old-fashioned straw brooms and sweep all along the curb, as well as on the sidewalks. This is presumably the same in every neighborhood throughout the city. And they do it at least once a week. One sunny day a few weeks ago, when I was downtown eating a sandwich on the steps outside one of the big museums, the sweeper-men were sweeping along the steps as I ate, even encouraging some of the people around me to throw their lunch trash on the ground so that they could include it in their sweep. Could someone talk to Tony Williams about instituting this profession in DC?