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...liberated women willing to buy the successor to the corset? It does not hurt, but neither is it comfortable. Like shoes that never stop rubbing the back of your heel, it is always there, doing what nature did not intend, with wires sufficient to hold up a suspension bridge and pads that would protect Jim Kelly. And for what? To be more appealing? A few minutes ago, the Kate Moss waif effect was all the rage, together with its requisite minimizer bra -- a contraption that could raise your voice an octave...
...hills and fields around Manassas, Virginia, have felt the boot of foreign forces before. But the latest intruder, the Walt Disney Co., may leave a mark more lasting than any Yankee heel: a $650 million American-history-and- entertainment park, called Disney's America, situated on 3,000 acres in the history-rich country 35 miles west of Washington...
...women, the results at the Eastern Championships were about the same. Alexia Cruz failed to qualify for the finals of the long jump, and freshman Ailey Penningroth also found that event to be her Achilles' heel in the pentathlon, fouling on her first two attempts and forcing her to jump conservatively on her last attempt...
...subsidy accord is crucial to the rescue operation, for private companies will not cut back unless their state-owned competitors are brought to heel. Europe's private steelmakers have warily agreed -- in principle only -- to a $1.1 billion shutdown scheme that the E.C. and member states plan to sweeten with $3.1 billion more for unemployment benefits and retraining. After last week's fiasco, officials pleaded for more flexibility from Rome. But either way, the lesson is clear: the longer the delay, the more painful the cure...
However, the short Irish team did not test the Crimson's lack of height, a factor that has the potential to be the team's Achilles heel. Against taller teams, Harvard hopes to make up for its lack of height (no starter is over 6'2") through speed, strength, atheleticism, and aggressiveness...