Word: earth
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...arrest, inviting friends to come garden with her. Georges Raynaud, Einhorn's 86-year-old bridge partner, attended. He can't believe Einhorn did it, but his wife jokes with him; make sure your new partner isn't a murderer, she says. When not in crisis, Flodin, the dutiful Earth Mother, still demonstrates against a proposed nuclear-waste dump site nearby. Mayor Jack Jouaron, 68, loves it when she comes to city hall with her leaflets, flush with political passion. "For an old man like me, it was something to talk to a beautiful blond Swedish girl like her," says...
...panoramic view of Boston isn't exactly appealing, but the John Hancock Building certainly is one of its kind. Not necessarily because it's that tall (nothing compared to New York City or Chicago), but because it has the most militant, bitter and angry security staff on earth. Of course, the Hancock Building's brochure trumpets praises for New England's tallest sky scraper: "come aboard the express elevator and feel the excitement build as you are whisked 60 floors straight up to the high point of your Boston visit." On a clear day, if it is possible to push...
...record books, the thrill of it all. It's like the dog who walked on its hind legs: it's not that it's done well, but that it's done at all. Sex in the study next to the Oval Office while the most powerful man on earth discussed military action in a foreign country with a member of Congress might have been what she had in mind when she reportedly packed those "presidential kneepads...
...with a swing band before taking up economics. The quiet romance of the man has always been present if you looked hard enough. Ayn Rand told friends, "What I like about A.G. is that basically he has his feet on the ground. I love his love for life on earth. He really is a passionate person in his own quiet way." Greenspan, who ran his own consulting firm on Wall Street for nearly 30 years, could have returned to the private sector and racked up a fortune. But his interest is elsewhere. Says Rubin: "Like all of us, Alan just...
...English. The Times of London responded to the Figaro statistics with the headline IT'S TRUE: THE FRENCH REALLY ARE THE SMELLIEST IN EUROPE. But are they? I know people, some of them holders of British passports, who insist that upper-class English are the filthiest people on earth. In England, there's an old story about the astounded response of the president of an Oxford college whose students, in a past less distant than you may think, asked for the installation of bathtubs: "Bathtubs! Bathtubs! These people are up here only eight weeks a term...