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Clear, brown or in between, water in tidal-wave volumes was sloshing over the banks of the Rhine and other major rivers, drowning vast stretches of northwestern Europe. In a week when happiness was a dry attic, a crow flying over the countryside would have needed not only its own rations but pontoon landing gear. Torrential rains had combined with unseasonable melting of Alpine snows to surcharge waterways funneling into the Low Countries. Though the Dutch remained mostly dry, the largest evacuation ever mobilized in the Netherlands cleared 250,000 people from their homes in Gelderland and Limburg, two southern...
...current issue of Mademoiselle features a cover image of Kate Moss in which she looks like Veronica Lake missing the bridge of her nose. The photo has the fashion world buzzing, but Mademoiselle editor Elizabeth Crow sees nothing wrong with it. "Kate has appeared on many Mademoiselle covers, and she always looked raunchy, neglected, unattractive," says Crow. "We wanted to make her drop-dead glamorous...
...best traditional pop vocal performance, where he'll go up against Bennett, Robert Flack, Willie Nelson and Barbra Streisand. Other luminaries on the short list for the Grammys -- to be presented March 1 in Los Angeles -- are five artists tied for most nominations with five apiece -- Babyface, Sheryl Crow, Elton John, Raitt and Bruce Springsteen...
...nation into dubious terrain. America's chattering classes have been beguiled by the idea of compensatory unfairness. They have not recognized it for what it is: a flirtation with the devil, a deepening reliance on the principle that formed the foundation of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow. This was the poison at the center of apartheid and Hitler's Nuremberg Laws...
...million-plus artifacts collected by George Gustav Heye, a turn-of-the-century New York City banker who bought out Indian communities much the way William Randolph Hearst emptied Spanish monasteries. One section of the museum, called "Creation's Journey," displays such Heye treasures as the famous, blood-red Crow shield, featuring a haunting human figure incorporating the actual body of a stork, which figured prominently in a Crow triumph over the Cheyenne; a gemlike Pomo hummingbird-feather basket; and an exquisite ceremonial mask from the 19th century Pacific Northwest...