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Imelda, recovered from her gastritis attack, sits at the defense table, wearing the black of mourning for her husband, who died last September in exile in Hawaii. As she enters, eyes are inexorably drawn to her feet. What cake was to Marie Antoinette, shoes are to Imelda, who had 2,700 pairs in her closet in the presidential residence in Manila. Newsday runs a daily shoe- watch photo, but she now tends to wear modest black pumps...
...breath of mortality on their own necks. Nolan Ryan, whom sportswriter Thomas Boswell has called "the Act of God," is the wondrous exception to this melancholy rule. The Texas Ranger hurler is 43 years old now, and he has more major league records than candles on his next birthday cake...
UNFORTUNATELY, Wilson has tried to have her cake and eat it too. While her actions reveal that she intends to turn Radcliffe into the foremost women's research center, she maintains the illusion that she can also provide sufficient support for female students. The result of this charade is the tragic sacrifice of women's issues on campus...
...from the milk of animals that eat only organic feed. Bernard Leroy, owner of Bernard, a French restaurant in New York City, even insists on using organic bay leaves to spice sauces. But the Paris-born chef is willing to compromise on sweets. "We can't go without chocolate cake or souffles, and organic chocolate doesn't exist," he says. "There are just so many desserts we can make from nuts...
...earth," says photographer Anthony Suau, recalling his trip last month to Copsa Mica. "It was as if a gigantic bottle of ink had spilled on the town." Copsa Mica's chief industry is tire production, and 24 hours a day its smokestacks heave out noxious, coal-based clouds that cake faces and fingers, cars and houses, grass and trees with endless soot...