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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half-envious attention with his first book, On Love, a tale that seasoned an alan as Gallic as his name with an irony as British as his upbringing. The genius of the book, written when he was 23 and translated into 13 languages, was to chart the parabolic trajectory of a love, while showing that charts tell us nothing we need to know of love. De Botton looked at the sophistries of the heart with a mix of pop psychology and learning that made his novel sing like a Cosmo article ghost-written by Descartes...
...without savage battles. The Democrats launched a withering barrage against the proposals even before they were fully spelled out. Reporters filing into the White House briefing room for the start of two days of oratory from top Administration officials found the theme enunciated even before the speechmaking started. A chart on an easel bore the headline cutting medicare to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. Cabinet secretaries, economic officials and most of all White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta banged away relentlessly; they criticized other proposals, such as a reduction in funding for Head Start, almost parenthetically. Democratic...
ACCORDING TO YOUR CHART ON THE longevity of marriages of celebrity couples [Chronicles, April 10], Catherine Howard and Henry VIII were married only 18 days. However, they were actually married for almost 18 months-from July 1540 until her execution...
...TAYLOR WAS WED TO HOTELIER Conrad N. Hilton for eight months, as your chart indicated, then how come that wasn't brought out back in 1951 during her well-publicized divorce from Conrad's son C. Nicholson (Nicky) Hilton Jr.? Could this explain why Hilton Sr. titled his 1957 memoir Be My Guest...
...STORY ON MEXICO'S ECONOMIC woes [March 6] included a chart showing the results of a Time/cnn poll of 1,000 Mexicans. A note on the methodology of the poll stated that it was taken by telephone. It was not. The polling was done in face-to-face interviews...