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Most legislators enthusiastically agreed. But a few cautioned that the hard work is still to be done. "He's setting himself up for having to produce," noted Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "That looks like a tall order." Scoffed Jimmy Carter's arms-control adviser, Paul Warnke, "The music was much better than the lyrics. There wasn't much substance to the words...
...fall 2001, Lowe had a promising career in British music and theater. He was a member of the boy band “North and South,” which produced a top-10 hit on the British charts. His West End runs as Marius in “Les Miserables” and the Rum Tum Tugger in “Cats” complemented his fiercely independent city lifestyle. But at the age of 23, Lowe found that it was the “perfect (time) to pull the reins and slow down” by switching gears...
...beautiful as movie stars, come down from the hills for a family stroll on the seaside Croisette. They pack the public beaches to get an early start on their suntans. And as a splendid May afternoon wanes and time nears for the Film Festival's first evening show, les Cannoises stand behind barriers to watch the chosen film's celebs emerge from limos and mount the 24 red-carpeted steps of the Grand Palais...
...real-life spy tale worthy of a B movie. Last week former military intelligence agent Pierre Martinet claimed that while working for Canal Plus' internal security unit, he'd been assigned to a secret project designed to smear Bruno Gaccio, lead writer of the channel's popular news parody, Les Guignols de l'Info. Martinet's new book recounts how he shadowed Gaccio for six months in 2002 in what he says was an effort by channel security bosses "to discredit Gaccio by discovering outrageous information from his private life." Martinet says Gaccio was targeted as a leader of Canal...
...totally been there” chuckles, particularly when Krinsky gives us students slipping in the mud at the Harvard-Yale tailgate, the hopeless tangle of crushes that enmesh a group of friends, or the occasional high intellectual in-joke: “Les autres, are, after all, hell—unless they are fucking you on your desk,” she says, describing the relationship between a philosophy major undergrad and her Sartre-loving TA. These are moments of sharp observation, even wit. But on the whole the book ends up being as flavorless as the vodka-and-soda...