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...entirely at home with the French aristocracy, which--it paid to be original, noted one of his successors--was entirely at home with him. In France he was cultivated, cosseted, lionized by dukes, counts and princes, for which John Adams could no more forgive him than he could accept Franklin's rampant popularity with footmen and chambermaids. In Philadelphia Franklin trailed behind him the self-made man's dubious scent of social climbing. In France he did not have to climb. He was hoisted...
...took a little while for Philadelphia to accept a man who walks around in buckle shoes, white stockings, a frilly white shirt and a red vest, with a gold pocket watch and a postal bag adorned with a perfectly forged Franklin signature--just one of eight complete outfits--but it did. "My first day here, a bag lady looked at me and said, 'Weirdo,'" Archbold says over breakfast at the Cosi sandwich shop after talking to one of the many homeless people who know him. "You have hit a new level of weirdo when a bag lady is calling...
...husband. For me it came down to two issues: Bill Clinton lied to a federal judge and lied to the citizens who had elected him. The questions in the Paula Jones deposition may have been "designed solely to trap the President into charges of perjury," but I can't accept the idea of the head of the Executive Branch lying or in any way dissembling before the Judiciary. The far greater injury, however, came when Bill Clinton lied to me. ALASTAIR DALLAS Los Gatos, Calif...
...well (sigh). I guess the jibes are inevitable. I guess us New Jerseyans just have to accept the fact that our state will always be the object of derisive humor, that it will consistently get slighted in deference to New York City—and, most annoyingly, that there will always be ungodly traffic on the Parkway during Fourth of July weekend...
...hand, and on the other hand those Palestinians to whom they refuse to speak directly - PA president Yasser Arafat, Fatah militia leader Marwan Barghouti (currently on trial in Tel Aviv on terror charges), and the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Abbas and Dahlan pointedly refused to accept security responsibility in Gaza without the consent of the militants - in the form of a hudna, the Islamic term for a temporary cease-fire, in which those organizations have undertaken to halt all attacks on Israelis for three, and in Fatah's case six, months...