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...French Foreign Legion; for that matter, he is lately also of the British army, the Spanish Foreign Legion and the University of Hertfordshire, where he studies literature. The two men, both British, carry green fatigues in waterproof bags. They have short haircuts. Whiting, burly, with a broken nose, speaks fluent rough-and-tumble French that he learned in the legion while serving on Mururoa. Baker, a lean, hard mountain climber with a seen-better, seen-worse expression, speaks nothing but rich, working-class Sussex. Someone says, "Cheers," Baker revs the outboard and the little inflatable, low in the water, rocks...
...Twenty years ago, we were smokin' grass," says Joe Armstrong, publisher of Garden Design. "Now we're cuttin' it." Formerly publisher of Rolling Stone, he has followed his baby-boomer generation into its latest passion. Once a dry periodical for professional architects and gardeners who speak fluent Latin, Garden Design was redesigned and reintroduced last April with a price of $5 an issue and a circulation of 50,000: average age, 43; median income, $71,000. Like other high-end offerings, its glossy editions feature gorgeous photography, closeups of sweaty petals and buxom peonies, landscapes that cry to be painted...
Wellington recently left a position as the legal affairs coordinator at Casa Myrna Vasquez, the largest battered women's shelter in New England. Fluent in Spanish, Wellington worked at the Cardinal Cushing Center for Spanish-Speaking People in the South End of Boston...
...fluent in French, in which her name means "green leaf." She seldom talked about herself, but it was known she had grown up in the Northeast. She had been posted to Ethiopia in the late 1950s and served in the CIA station in Finland in the early 1960s and in the Hague in the mid-1960s. In the early 1970s she had found her metier, counterintelligence--combatting opposition spies and moles--when she was appointed head of the research section in the Soviet division's counterintelligence group, then chief of the branch that maintained biographies on Soviet and East European...
...have to be fluent in Japanese (although I am) to understand that the caption under the photo accompanying your article "An Uncontrollable Yen" is incorrect [Trade, April 24]. It says restaurants in Japan "charged $10 for a cup of coffee at the going exchange rate." But the article noted an exchange rate of 80.15 yen to the U.S. dollar, so the 100-yen price tag shown in the photograph comes to only...