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...Japanese push into the luxury market began with Honda's introduction of the Acura Legend in 1986 in the European and U.S. markets, but the trend has accelerated markedly in the past year. Nissan introduced its Infiniti line of cars in the U.S., featuring the opulent V-8-powered Q45 and the smaller M30, and is adding a new car this month. Another Japanese manufacturer, Mitsubishi, plans to introduce a luxury car next year...
...principal reason for this policy has been economy. Today's reservists are a far cry from the fat, lazy weekend warriors of legend. They pass the same physical tests as regulars, get the same sort of training, and drill with the same advanced equipment. Nonetheless, it costs only a third to half as much to pay, train and equip a reservist as it does a full-time soldier...
This is the Neal Cassady that beckons from his widow's memoir 22 years after his death in Mexico at the age of 42. That he survives Carolyn Cassady's recollections with some of the legend intact suggests not only that a successful con man sells what people want to buy but also that he must believe in the pitch himself. For the author, who was an adventuresome graduate of Bennington when she met Cassady in 1947, this meant that life could be more exciting than settling down with a guy named Bill. With a guy named Neal...
...book's opening scene describes Watson's execution by a band of his Chatham River neighbors who ambushed him from the banks as he put-putted up to his dock in one of the first motorboats folks had ever seen. Thirty-one bullets were used to lay this legend to rest...
...Germanic tribes began moving into Roman territory during the 3rd century, not as the "barbarian" invaders of popular legend but as immigrants and refugees. Even the Visigoths, who conquered Rome in A.D. 410, subjecting it, in Gibbon's majestic words, to the "licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia," had originally entered the empire peacefully, and many had loyally served in the Roman army. The celebrated sacking of Rome was primarily a humiliation, nothing like the all-out Roman destruction of Carthage, Thebes and Jerusalem...