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Cherimoya. Jicama. Loquat. Malanga. Tamarillo. Ceriman. Carambola. Chayote. Mammee. Pomelo. Kiwano. Yuca. At first glance, the names seem to be the language of a mystical incantation. In fact, they could be a shopping list of produce to be purchased at the supermarket...
...city stood higher on their hit list than Venice. "We repudiate the Venice of the foreigners, market of antiquarian fakers, magnet of universal snobbishness and stupidity . . . We want to prepare the birth of an industrial and military Venice. Let us fill the stinking little canals with the rubble of the tottering, infected old palaces! Let us burn the gondolas, rocking chairs for idiots." Thus Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and his friends, the futurist painters, in a manifesto from 1910. It is a delicious irony that the most important exhibition in Europe this summer (or indeed anywhere else) should be a giant...
...list was gradually narrowed further. Many facilities, for instance, were relaying legitimate telephone or video signals on the night of the attack. HBO technicians provided one helpful clue. Exactly one week before Captain Midnight's attack, the service's programming had been interrupted briefly with a pattern of color bars. It was apparently the work of the same person; thus it seemed the culprit had access to the facility at the same time on both nights. Another important tip came from an accountant vacationing in Florida who had overheard a revealing conversation about Captain Midnight at a pay phone...
Officials announced earlier that Secretary ofDefense Caspar W. Weinberger '38, Sep. Edward M.Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and several former Cabinetofficials were among the list of distinguishedspeakers attending the Kennedy School celebration...
Chirac supports the new regulations; Mitterrand does not. In the duel on this issue, Mitterrand's chosen weapon last week was the guest list for his annual Bastille Day garden party, held in the Elysee Palace. Mitterrand invited two young Algerian immigrants living in Lyons who had conducted a hunger strike to protest the hard line on law and order. Interior Minister Charles Pasqua was so angered at the President's gesture of support for those protesting the government's legislation that he refused to attend the affair...