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France was the logical accomplice, given its historic rivalry with England, to which America owed its birth. Rarely has it been so baldly true that the enemy of one's enemy is one's friend. In the name of expediency, the colonies were willing to put aside their traditional aversion to Papist France. And in the name of expediency, the French monarchy--which saw in America some delicious trade advantages and an equally appealing chance to humble England--was willing to underwrite a republic. Its doing so was in large part Franklin's work. Ninety percent of the gunpowder used...
...pairs of shoes. In that case, it was a dream of self-realization: Harvard Law School and all that. In the sequel (subtitled Red White & Blonde), she's offering a much broader liberal and populist agenda to the "land of the free gift with purchase." Searching for the birth mom of the abandoned Bruiser, she discovers that Mrs. Bruiser is being used in experiments by a cosmetics conglomerate. Devoted though she is to lip gloss, this is too much for Elle. Off she goes to our nation's capital, a splash of riotous color in a sea of gloomy suits...
Having been adopted, I conclude from my experience that we get our behavior and personalities from our genes and our habits from the nurturing of others or our environment. My birth mother and my adoptive mother are as different as night and day, and seeing what each of them has passed on to me has been an enrichment and a joy. BETTY A. NORMAN Netcong...
...that he was English and died pathetically young. But the sheer immensity of his work - 2 million words of fiction, reportage, essays, poems and reviews - and the tantalizing contradictions of his life are today largely unknown to the rising generation. That may soon change. The centenary of Orwell's birth this week - he was born June 25, 1903, in Motihari, India, where his father was an opium agent for the British Raj - has brought a tide of conferences, articles and books on the man and his legacy. Chief among them are two engrossing biographies: George Orwell by British author Gordon...
...tired of deleting the daily influx of junk e-mail one message at a time? Don't despair. Most services that provide Internet or Web-based e-mail also offer free tools that will take out the trash for you (although if you're not careful, they will throw birth announcements out with the bath water). If you need something a little more discriminating, there is plenty of software you can buy that will help you filter your own mail. There's still no such thing as a 100% spam-free In box, but if you're willing to make...