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...from Nebraska and Wisconsin--we all pitched in. We worked six days a week to get the Bomb first. There's been a lot of stories that maybe we had the Bomb and were sitting on it, that we could have used it in Germany but because we're Anglo-Saxons or whatever, that we only went against the Asians. That's not true. As soon as we got the Bomb we were ready to drop...
...good news for fashion is that there are still plenty of big spenders out there. In Paris, Colette--the must-visit store for fashion fans--is packed. A woman spots a Russian sable scarf for $15,400 and buys it on the spot. Marko Matysik, the Anglo-German designer who supplies scarves to the store, sees the purchase and isn't surprised. "There were two of my chinchilla scarves here the other day, and they've both sold too," he says--for $14,400 each. They're the perfect accessory for that $10 tank...
...name fool you: The Phoenix Landing is about as Irish a pub as they come. The owners named the establishment for the mythical bird that rises from its ashes in blazing glory — a common symbol for Ireland’s rebirth after the Anglo-Irish War. The interior of the Landing is bathed in a warm red and features authentic wooden walls. The Galway-born bartender, Niamh (rhymes with ‘Bev’—no joke), told of the St. Paddy’s Day festivities: an honest-to-goodness bagpipe...
...project has also come under criticism from Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of the French national library, who has already digitized 80,000 volumes of the French library. He said the Google project would inevitably be biased in favor of English language and Anglo-Saxon publications. Jeanneney’s complaints were reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month...
Flecker, however, insists that HUL’s vast amount of foreign works will counteract the Anglo-American influence Jeanneney proposes...