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...Clinton used to impose on them - his departure has released them from that pressure. It's also part of the political culture of the Arab world that by criticizing the outgoing ruler, you are introducing yourself to the new president in very good shape. Arafat's people want to impress Bush, and give the Republicans the sense that they share some criticisms of Clinton...
...scrubbed college grads like Fumiya, 26, a former radio DJ, and Noa, 25, who by day works in sales for a computer company. The $1 million interior of his Roppongi club purrs sophistication. Customers pay a flat fee of $30 an hour, including free wine?unless they want to impress their host by ordering the $10,000 bottle. The floor show is more high-school talent night than Chippendales. "We want women to feel it's safe, comfortable and fun," he says...
...case at a zoning hearing Jan. 4. As if that weren't trouble enough, Spielberg found out he has to go to Washington for an unexpected business trip in January. Britain wants to knight him at its embassy for his "extraordinary contribution to the entertainment industry." That should help impress the neighbors...
Most politicians try to impress people by showing how smart, how engaged and how busy they are. Bush does the opposite. He likes to be underestimated, likes to pretend you're telling him something he didn't already know. And he likes to be seen as unflappable. No problem is too tough that it can't be licked with a little of the common sense that rules on his 1,600-acre property in Crawford, Texas. If that means people think he's not quite as clever as all these city folks he has working for him, all the better...
...Camus, a potential leading figure for a whole new generation of writers who will bring the grand French tradition of unmitigated anomie to dizzying new depths. And now, with the recent English translation of The Elementary Particles, his newest and most hotly debated novel, Houellebecq is determined to impress his genius upon the American literary scene...