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When Hugo Ch??vez, the President of Venezuela, talks about the Bush Administration, he does so with invective that can be both bellicose and sophomoric. Since he became President in 1999, Ch??vez has publicly, in Spanish, called Bush an a______who is trying to assassinate him. He has referred to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as an "illiterate" who has a crush on him. Ch??vez often airs his attacks on Aló Presidente, a weekly, hours-long television call-in show from the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. His fulminations are such a hit with Venezuelan supporters that Ch?...
Ronald Reagan's best friend is freedom. It did most of the work for him in Geneva. It was on his shoulder when he was walking Mikhail Gorbachev down toward the lake. It was tiptoeing around the room in the Ch??teau Fleur d'Eau and may even have whispered in Gorbachev...
MOST PROMISING NEW DOMESTIC CHEESE American ch??vre (goat cheese) has so far lacked the rich complexity of the French product. Serious efforts at the Coach Farm in Pine Plains, N.Y., are a big step in the right direction. The production is presided over by Marie-Claude Chaleix, a French cheesemaker who hopes Americans will learn to love the blue mold that indicates age and gives this white cheese its tantalizing earthiness...
...gold. Downstairs, in a not-so-bargain basement, the woman who used to refer to "my fellow poor" had left behind some 2,700 pairs of size eight shoes, five shelves of Gucci handbags and 38 of her 105 clothes racks, designed to carry 80 outfits each. Around the ch??teau hung life-size portraits depicting the former First Couple as a scantily clad Filipino version of Adam and Eve. Elsewhere, the Marcoses had been a touch more modest: the legends on their bedroom intercoms read simply "King's Room" and "Queen's Room...
...furor, Wallis told the King that she was having second thoughts about the marriage, but he persuaded her to go through with it and then abdicated, becoming Duke of Windsor. She became Duchess of Windsor on June 3, 1937, in a small wedding in France at a ch??teau near Tours. Ostracized by the royal family but reportedly provided with a £2 million settlement and a yearly income of £60,000, she and the new duke began cultivating the fine art of doing nothing during years of elegant exile. They took up residence in a 30-room house...