The Great Cabinet Office Triathlon

During our annual benefit this past April, guests were invited to enter the Great Cabinet Office Triathlon, which challenged them to attempt a series of mundane tasks performed regularly at Cabinet headquarters: stuffing magazines into envelopes, proofreading, and shooting rubber bands. The grand prize: a page in Cabinet featuring a photograph of the winner’s favorite animal.

The fastest triathlete, architect Alice Tai, stuffed three magazines into envelopes, found two misspellings in a Cabinet text, and successfully fired a rubber band into a distant bin in thirty-two seconds flat. Tai’s astonishing performance confounded her rivals: the second-place triathlete, a distinguished scholar, was a full twenty seconds behind. Here we present Cabinet readers with Tai’s favorite animal: her splendid cat, Po.