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I was sitting at the dining-room table reading the New York Times magazine section, and there was a story about a girl who had been a debutante and had discovered that that wasn't all it was cracked up to be. The first line was, "I learned the truth...
All Things to All Men Blair says the Met has learned the lessons of Stockwell. But a former counterterrorism investigator from France suggests it has not addressed its structural problems. "The Metropolitan Police has always struck me as iconic of English society," the French investigator says. "It merges absolute professionalism...
He learned a lot. It turns out that in love, everybody's the same, but different. For instance, Meetic's advertising theme, "The rules of the game have changed," worked brilliantly in France, but bombed in Italy, where courtship rituals remain more traditional. Speak to an Italian man about women...
Simoncini has learned the hard way that while it's fun to play Cupid, playing publicly held Cupid is another thing altogether. "I used to get 10 e-mails a day from people thanking me for helping them find someone, and it was extraordinary - it made me want to get...
The UNFAO's Chipeta said he thought the world food crisis might help Ethiopia in the long-run. Shortages and higher prices would cut food aid. The immediate effect would be harsh, and thousands would die. But if Ethiopia were ever to feed itself, he argued, "you have to make...