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...consider myself a man of center-left political feelings. I would not say that I am admired by the present government," Jaguaribe commented yesterday. He described Brasil as a "rather discreet police state, somewhat like those of Franco and Salazar...
Jacques Heim had other ideas, mostly leggy: there were textured stockings, pleated culottes, ruffled pajamas, and panties peeking out from under a chiffon dress to add "a discreet note of eroticism." But the biggest gasps in town greeted a Heim stretch suit patterned like a cobra skin and protected (he says) from charges of indecent exposure by a U.S.-made body stocking underneath. Lanvin stuck to skirts, most of which, in turn, were stuck to panels (of the skinny, streamer variety), while Griffe played the game from both sides of the net, turned some skirts into pants, left others...
Commissioner Esther Carter's ignorance is in the best (or worst) tradition of an ancient office that now requires no special qualifications whatever. In 1793, Congress began appointing "discreet persons, learned in the law" to accept bail in federal cases. The qualifications died in 1896, when Congress handed over the appointments to U.S. district judges. Today's 700 U.S. commissioners may be butchers, bakers or candlestick makers. Yet they function as the federal judiciary's committing magistrates, hold preliminary hearings and determine whether accused persons shall be released or held for trial...
...does seem strange, however, that a College official who claims to have the student's interests as his first concern would be willing to gossip regularly with the FBI. Perhaps agent Sullivan is, in fact, "discreet," but we would prefer that the individual student decide what is confidential--not Dean Watson. Perhaps it is difficult to get students and agents together, but we would prefer that the FBI make and follow up its own appointments--not Dean Watson. Quite simply, the Dean of Students has no business acting as an operative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, however innocent...
...over the world. Any threat to this hush-hush, confessional quality is therefore a blow at the very center of the multibillion-dollar Swiss banking industry. By the same token, a nation or group that sets out to track down the wealth of teetering tyrants or the merely discreet rich frequently looks with frustration to the Swiss banks, with their anonymous sanctuary and numbered accounts. Last week secrecy and the desire for disclosure clashed in the Swiss courts - and the Swiss banks walked away the winner...