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The post-Labor Day moratorium on white clothing and accessories has long ranked among etiquette hard-liners' most sacred rules. As punishment for breaking it in the 1994 movie Serial Mom, for instance, Patty Hearst's character was murdered by a punctilious psychopath. But ask your average etiquette expert how...
Diplomats preparing to lobby Westerwelle effectively will look for the keys to his character. They're not easy to locate. His stolid public persona turns out to be just as misleading as the notion that all Germans lack a funny bone. The private Guido is complex. An art collector, he...
Her voice, once likened to a "laser beam that can knife through an orchestra," had its technical shortcomings. But her talent as an actress more than made up for her sometimes ragged pitch. "I sing the beautiful parts as beautifully as I can, and if the character is screaming, I...
When students entered the Yard last week to shop classes, they surely noticed the sea of pastel-colored chairs dotting the center of Harvard’s campus—and perhaps even stopped for a seat themselves. The 476 chairs and 82 tables, spread throughout the Yard and the...
The Russians invaded Chechnya in 1994 to try to keep it part of Russia. They failed. In 1999, three years after the end of the first Chechen war, they went back, at the prodding of then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In a move reminiscent of Tolstoy's hundred-year-old...