Word: coveteousness
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...Democrat to watch is Feinstein. "Nothing I know right now interests me in running," she said last week. But that leaves her some wiggle room, should things change. She is more popular in the state than Davis and has long been thought to covet the governorship. (She lost a shot at it in 1990.) She also comes to the race with rare experience. In 1983 when she was mayor of San Francisco, she too faced a recall election. She won handily. --By Terry McCarthy and Karen Tumulty
There's something about a shop plastered with photos of pixie-faced celebrities flashing V-signs that makes you covet a pair of their cast-off feathered jeans or a once-worn magenta mohair sweater. At least, that's what Charlene Choi Tsoek-jin?the younger half of the misnamed Hong Kong Canto-pop pair Twins?hopes fans will do in her new vintage clothes store, Low B Club. "I've always wanted to design my own clothes but I don't have the time," says Choi. Opening up a fashion store was the next best thing. "Since we only...
...Angkor Wat is the heart of Khmer culture and identity?and a persistent snarling point between the two countries. That the temple complex has come under Thai control three times since the 15th century, most recently during World War II, riles Cambodians. To this day, they claim, Thais still covet the temple. Thais, for their part, take umbrage from the very name of the Cambodian city adjacent to Angkor?Siem Riep, which literally means "flattened Thai soldiers." Recently a Thai beer company featured an advertisement with backdrops of well-known scenes of Thailand?that included Angkor Wat. The commercial...
...wanted to drop out since the end of the first semester, when I realized that Harvard was only worthwhile if you covet its name,” he says. “No bribe, even a degree with a Harvard name on it, is worth wasting so much time and energy...
...three people at the story's center?Pyle (Brendan Fraser), the older English reporter Thomas Fowler (Caine) and local lovely Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), whom the two men covet, conquer and betray?can be seen as representing the Americans, Europeans and Vietnamese of the early '50s, dancing on a slippery geopolitical slope that leads straight into the Big Muddy. They are also familiar figures in the Greene canon. The Quiet American is very nearly Greene's remake of The Third Man, his 1949 tale of political and sexual intrigue set in postwar Vienna, with the same cast of characters...