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...discovered the matzah, and soon after, a book on Jewish mysticism, he began muttering, "ah, Jewish, Jewish, Jewish" repeatedly--both to me and to my suitcase. After making a neat stack on the table of the books and tapes, he opened my duffle-bag and repeated the same procedure. The process continued as he attacked my two carry-on pieces. He found a prayer-book in Hebrew, my address book and some letters my mother had written me. The same litany, "Jewish, Jewish, Jewish," began again as he flipped through the prayer-book, and as he opened and skimmed...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: A Midwinter's Journey to the Soviet Union | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

...celebrities ever assembled," says the proud promoter. Prince, we are told, has "bought" Mile 1. Walter Payton has a mile of his own. And Oprah Winfrey has declared, "My mile will be for people who can't * afford the $10 (standing fee). No rich people in my mile." Ah, the little people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Celebrities in Politics: a Cure | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...January 14 (1817). Dinner, with trivial conversation on the superiority of stout over thin women . . . January 15. I fetch the Imperial Almanac. The Emperor looks up the ages of his brothers. 'Josephine faked her age.' (He) looks at the names of the ladies of his court. He is moved. 'Ah! it was a fine empire. I had 83 million human beings under my government -- more than half the population of Europe.' To hide his emotion, the Emperor sings . . . January 27. We read Paradise Lost. The Emperor wants to buy a cow, but where shall we keep it?" The imperial party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Island of the Lost Autocrats | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...Ah, Harvard. Where else could my political affiliations be trumpeted to the world by the courses I choose and the movies I watch? Where else could I be a political schemer, an imperialist dog, and a chain-smoking socialist before I even finished lunch? Certainly not at Dartmouth...

Author: By James A. Himes, | Title: The Big Green Beast | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

...Ah, finally someone who can take time out to wax philosphical and talk about the important...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Watching the Super Bowl: A Constitutional Right | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

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