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...descendant of a water carrier who was guillotined in 1793, recalls that his grandmother refused to walk past the place in the market where the execution machine stood. "Now I too avoid that spot out of respect for my ancestors," Tournier says. Jacques Delmas, a lawyer from Reims, has fonder feelings for the revolution. "One of my ancestors stormed the Bastille," he says, "and I feel both thrilled and proud to be French whenever I walk past the place where it once stood...
...media's liberal bias. When Senator Jesse Helms, the right-wing Republican from North Carolina, launched a campaign in 1985 to take over CBS, he urged supporters with pointed glee to buy up CBS stock and "become Dan Rather's boss." Many TV news traditionalists are no fonder of Rather: he is too high-pitched, too image conscious, too well paid...
Foreigners are even more enamored of bonds. They had amassed $142 billion in corporate and non-Treasury government bonds (including mortgage-backed securities) by the beginning of this year. But non-American investors are fonder still of securities sold by the Treasury Department. Foreigners own 16% of the $1.7 trillion in outstanding publicly held U.S. Treasury debt instruments. At the latest sale of U.S. Treasury long-term bonds in August, Japanese buyers snapped up more than 30% of the 10-to-30-year offerings, boosting their holdings in Treasury securities to $65 billion or more...
...conspicuously missing from the self-avowed roman a clef. "My route to intimacy is routine," writes Fisher's fictional protagonist. "I establish a pattern with somebody, and then I notice when they're not there." Looks like this is one case where absence did not make the heart grow fonder...
...must prevent communism from jumping to the North American mainland. Well, great. But even assuming communism is like a weather front or measles, spreadable as pollen on the wind, we may be more responsible for its currency in the Third World than the Soviets. I found Nicaraguans much fonder of Americans than of Russians, but far angrier at the U.S. Government than at anything the USSR has done. Nicaragua is a country where veneration for Marx, though well advanced in some circles, is considerably less than the veneration for the Virgin Mary in those same circles. Try saying that about...