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...reedy field fringing the gritty eastern townships of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. She doesn't want neighbors to see her being interviewed. She is afraid her family will find out she is a prostitute, so we will call her Thandiwe. She looked quite prim and proper in her green calf-length dress as she waited for johns outside 109 Tongogaro Street in the center of downtown. So, for that matter, do the dozens of other women cruising the city's dim street corners: not a mini or bustier or bared navel in sight. Zimbabwe is in many ways a prim and proper...
...Smiths. More like a nation of Dan Rostenkowskis. We've heard about shedding all irony and sarcasm and adopting that unflattering "I'm a public servant, I'm here to serve" pseudo-sincerity. And yes, we (well, one of us anyway) have also heard about those horrible mid-calf-length skirts...
...politicians never really stop campaigning - the pollsters see to that. But this is the first time that two presidential candidates have lasted this long into November, and while this whole mess looks to be firmly in the hands of the lawyering hordes, public opinion is still the golden calf before which Al Gore and George W. Bush must bow down...
Nine seconds later, Harvard captain Eddie Baker crossed the finish line to win third place in his first race of the season. Baker left the season-opening Fordham Invitational a week earlier with a calf problem 3.5 miles into the race...
...shall we say, ruthlessness of his thought, but "cheerful" is not the first word he brings to my mind. A few years ago at a dinner in a highly WASP old club in New York, I watched Podhoretz sink his teeth (figuratively speaking) into a supercilious liberal's calf in the way a very focused dog goes after the mailman. He did not let go for three hours or so. I forget what they were fighting about...