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...leading me around his sturdy brick house in Bridlington, a British seaside resort town not far from where Hockney was born, he's steaming. "You know that Hitler didn't smoke?" he asks suddenly, as though daring me to disagree that this alone might explain der Führer's lust for world conquest. Last fall on British radio Hockney debated Julie Morgan, the Labour Member of Parliament who spearheaded the ban. "Death awaits you whether you smoke or not," he warned her. "Pubs are not health clubs." As for New York City, now that it has its own smoking...
...Denver The president should be more re-spectful of individual rights and the separation of powers. Any important wiretap needs to be approved by the appropriate court, a simple but vital check on the authority of public officials. We're sacrificing too much because of the Bush Administration's lust for unchecked power. Jerry Borrowman Sandy, Utah, U.S. I have no problem with the authorities' rooting out terrorists by legal means, but Americans should remember the kind of information collected by fbi chief J. Edgar Hoover and how he used it to threaten his personal enemies. One of Hoover...
...President should be more respectful of individual rights and the separation of powers. Any important wire tap needs to be approved by the appropriate court, a simple but vital check on the authority of government officials. We citizens are sacrificing too much because of the Bush Administration's lust for unchecked power. JERRY BORROWMAN Sandy, Utah...
...direct it? To be in control. "That's a good motivation right there, to satisfy one's lust for creative control," he says. And he adds jokingly, "As the director, I also had a part that might appeal to a very expensive actor so much that he might work for almost nothing"?and in the bargain, give an eloquently terse reading of a man's man, driven by urges that are too deep to be expressed in tears or shouts but are visible on Jones' face?if you watch him as closely as he watches the world...
...many ways, gold lust is a relic of the bad old India?an India of weak investor rights and shaky financial systems, where people distrusted banks and the stock market and preferred to store their wealth in tangible assets, chiefly gold and property. The recent economic boom has given Indians a range of sophisticated and relatively secure financial instruments: mutual funds, stocks, bonds, even abstract art. Richer Indians are, indeed, diversifying their investments. "At the top end of society, yes, [gold] consumption is beginning to decrease," says K. Shivram, a vice president of the World Gold Council in Madras...