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...formal vote was hours away, but by lunchtime the champagne corks were popping on the 37th floor of the United Nations Secretariat in New York City. The preceding weeks had been filled with intense diplomatic scuffling, terminating in one final big-power temper tantrum. But by 1 o'clock Friday afternoon, it was certain that Kofi Annan of Ghana was to be the seventh Secretary-General of the U.N., succeeding the reluctantly retiring Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Jan. 1. The jubilation in the U.N. building was heartfelt: Annan was perhaps the most popular candidate among those who worked...
...aren't any. In 1969 McGraw-Hill brought out its five-volume Dictionary of Art, still useful but a mere dinghy in comparison with this dreadnought. The ur-art dictionary was begun in 1907 by two German scholars, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, but since the publication of its 37th volume in 1950, it has tried to do no more than issue occasional volumes of updates. Even that is a task comparable to repainting the Brooklyn Bridge with a nail-polish brush. Thieme-Becker is not, in any case, translated into English...
...course, just laps her up. Her mix of fragility and spine is perfect for that movie staple, the wise child. She has already made five feature films and won a Golden Globe for her television work. Currently she can be seen in the film To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, in which she outshines far more experienced actors, including Michelle Pfeiffer. Next year she'll be working with Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola. In fact, Danes is so hot she has a promotional deal with Prada's Miu Miu line, which ensures that she has as many free extra...
...became a state in 1867, the 37th, and Nebraska has remained a wide-open, Great Plains region ever since, with a unicameral legislative body composed of 49 nonpartisan Senators. For half a century, Nebraska has been one of the most Republican states in presidential elections--and has had three Republican U.S. Representatives since the 1960s--but has kept both its Senators Democrat. With James Exon retiring, however, that could change. In a state that is the world's best place to make a living by phone (a telemarketer's haven) and the birthplace of both Johnny Carson and Malcolm...
First the Pentagon conceded last June that perhaps 350 soldiers from the Army's 37th Engineer Battalion could have been exposed to traces of chemical weapons when they blew up ammunition at the Kamisiyah weapons depot in southern Iraq on March 4, 1991. It was one day after Iraq's surrender, ending the Gulf War, and the unit was destroying Bunker 73, which contained rockets brimming with the virulent gas sarin. Three weeks ago, a presidential commission tripled--to 1,100--its estimate of the number of G.I.s exposed to the poison during that incident. Then last Wednesday the Pentagon...