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There are places Bill Clinton remembers in My Life—just not too well, according to Kennedy School of Government professor and Dunster House Master Roger B. Porter, who alleges that the former president fabricated a damning conversation between the two of them in his newly published memoir...
...also decided to make personal enrichment a big goal for this summer. I’m planning to learn (or at least begin the study of) the Latin language. I’m going to start preparing for the LSAT. And I’m finally going to master the computer language C++, even if it kills...
...last representatives of China's prerevolutionary glamour sits in a ramshackle courtyard, somewhere in the maze of Beijing's fast-vanishing hutongs, or alleyways. For 60 years, master dressmaker Cao Senlin, tel: (86-10) 6526 4515, has been producing the slinky silk dresses known as cheongsam. And although you could get these at one of the modern tailors that have sprung up in the capital, you would be missing out on a historic opportunity if you were to bypass the 78-year-old's tiny, 150-square-foot atelier...
...been keeping diaries for 27 years. For the most part, it's just garbage, so I go through them, take whatever's good and make a master list. In the summer of 1984, I've got on June 23 that I saw a drunk woman drop her baby. And then an episode of Oprah that was particularly good on July 3. I used to type my diary and then have it bound. Now I print it out. I do one every season, and it has to have a seasonal cover. It's a lot of work for something...
...support him--"ardents," he called them. Friends, colleagues and hangers-on were willing to forgive him almost anything because of his gifts and because of an underlying innocent sweetness they saw in him. (Not everyone, though: the young Kenneth Tynan described him as "a surly little pug, but a master of pastiche and invective. Thinks himself the biggest and best phoney of all time, and may be right...