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...Shulevitz (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $15). Once upon one more time, we have the slightly dippy king who craves the answer to a riddle ("Why is your head gray and your beard black?"), the humble but clever man who provides it and the nasty court counselor who is jealous. Humility prevails and spin-doctoring fails, as invariably happens in stories. The author's angular tempera illustrations are vivid and funny -- the camel on which the king perches is an unusually thoughtful and sardonic beast -- but the somewhat preachy story doesn't add much...
...much that he's a married man (adultery is 'in') but 50 years seems like a big age difference. If you can make it work, more power to you. My advice (and you did ask for it): don't tell your folks. As for your roommates, maybe they're jealous. Be patient with them...
Washington's flirtation with Asia is also designed to make Europe jealous. U.S. trade across the Pacific is already 50% greater than its transatlantic counterpart, a sizable change from 1980, when the figures were about equal. The European Community knows that APEC could provide the U.S. with a consortium to fall back on in the event of a breakdown in current negotiations over the 111-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which aims to reduce trade barriers throughout the world. As a Dec. 15 deadline approaches, those talks have bogged down on several issues, especially the European Community...
...easy being the younger one. At the magazine we get a little jealous of the newspaper. Crimson always gets the attention of administrators, Crimson gets the bigger offices, Crimson has a later curfew. (Wait--not always. Sometimes FM closes out hours and hours after The Crimson. Know why? Because Crimson gets to use the Imagesetter first, that...
...wife got sick once in college because of alcohol and never got sick again. She just stops after one or two drinks," Musselman said. "I can't imagine how she just stops. I'm jealous. When I had a drink or two or three, I felt that I was in complete command...