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Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev talked in Geneva through more complex lattices. They sat by the fire in the Château Fleur d'Eau and interpreted the world for each other through their distinctive mental grids--different societies, different interests, minds formed by different histories. Walter Lippmann wrote, "We are all captives of the pictures in our head--our belief that the world we experience is the world that really exists." Reagan explained America to Gorbachev. Gorbachev explained the Soviet Union to Reagan. Neither man was moved to defect as a result of the education. More useful than cross-cultural...
Reagan is host for the first day's talks on Tuesday at Fleur d'Eau, an unoccupied château made available by the Swiss government. Advancemen have arranged for Gorbachev to be driven to the back of the house just before 10 a.m. Reagan will be waiting on a flight of gray stone steps leading to the rear portico, hand outstretched for a historic shake. After a brief get-acquainted session, the President and General Secretary, each accompanied by seven aides and a translator, will confer until noon, return to their residences for lunch, and meet again from...
...likely to have been the most personal and private one. On Tuesday morning at 10:05, shortly after meeting for the first time, Reagan and Gorbachev were scheduled to excuse themselves from the ceremonial opening din and sit down together in a tranquil room in the villa Fleur d'Eau with only their interpreters. No battalions of advisers, no swarms of reporters. Alone in the room with just their wits and their heavy sense of responsibility. That is when, in all likelihood, the full wonder of the moment will have most powerfully gripped them. Two humans out of 5 billion...
...when a mudslide buried part of the beachside town of La Conchita. MEANWHILE IN FRANCE... Smell the Bouquet As part of a campaign to convince Parisians that tap water is a healthy alternative to bottled mineral water, the company that manages the capital's water supply has renamed itself Eau de Paris, and is offering residents downloadable labels extolling its product's virtues. The new name is certainly more glamorous than the old one, Société Anonyme de Gestion des Eaux de Paris - but what's next: Eau de Cologne...
...Kiehl's brand is donating three products to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History: Cryste Marine Cream, based on a flower that grows on rock formations along the Mediterranean coast; Abyssine Cream, based on a polysaccharide found near the Galapagos' hydrothermal vents; and the Original Musk Eau de Toilette, left, will all take up residence in the Division of Medicine and Science. --By Samantha Hallock