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Mike Greenly had been trying for weeks to interview Ed Koch about New York City's handling of the AIDS epidemic when he finally buttonholed the mayor on the steps of city hall. "There I was," Greenly typed into his portable computer soon afterward, "cheek to jowl with His Honor." Two hours later he had plugged his Tandy Model 100 into a telephone line and dispatched the first installment of his exclusive interview...
...improve his self-esteem and catch the eye of a co-worker he’s had a crush on.” But instead of cutting his hair and giving him a nice new suit to wear to work, Dan had the following done: jowl implants (what is a jowl?), buckle pads excision (don’t know what that is either), liposuction on the cheeks, liposuction on the chest, abdomen and hip rolls, fat injections in the face, a hair weave, Lasik eye surgery and dental work, including gum reshaping, teeth whitening and eight upper veneers (what?). Oprah...
...could help nurture one prized U.S. goal: Saddam's falling at the hands of his own people. "Baghdad is one of those classic cities that happen to contain all the kindling necessary to spark a revolt," says Scales. "You'd have the ruling elite and the army cheek by jowl with the people, who despise both the elite and the army." --With reporting by Matt Rees and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem
...facilities in Tokyo accept girls, and then just a handful. The regimen at one, a century-old institution in a leafy suburb, remains unchanged from the days of its founding. Girls in their early to mid-teens exercise, study and farm sweet potatoes and cabbages. They live cheek-by-jowl in tatami-mat rooms, sunny and clean but devoid of pop-star posters or any personal belongings whatsoever?the girls can't have cell phones, makeup or even their own underwear. They can leave the campus one day a month on group outings to spend a $23 monthly allowance. Parents...
...Fred has been sulking ever since the report appeared. Freddie is a hound of many moods. Now he flattens himself with his jowl-flaps splayed on his little Aladdin's mat under the kitchen table. He will not rouse himself even when a horde of crows appears like Visigoths on the grass outside, an outrage that usually stirs him to a storm of indignant imprecation...