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...that those over seven can). "There used to be an old expression, 'Give me a child till he's seven, and I'll give you the adult,'" recalls Brian McSweeney, a vice chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York. There's more than a grain of truth in that maxim...
...Rwandans and Burundians given the recent genocide," says Mutiso. "Once Kabila's government began whipping up anti-Tutsi sentiment, Rwanda felt compelled to act." With the battle lines drawn by Kabila's anti-Tutsi purge, Congo's president may wind up with plenty of time to mull over the maxim that you have to dance with them that brung...
Nothing succeeds like excess" goes the famous Hollywood maxim, and nowhere is that more true than offscreen. We're talking about those ego-driven dictators of Panavision dreams who consume truckloads of drugs, frolic with call girls and go millions over budget as carelessly as if they were writing a bad check for groceries. Take Francis Coppola, who drank from Lalique crystal and cavorted with bimbos on the set of Apocalypse Now while his crew suffered from hookworm and rabies. How about Martin Scorsese, who was so wired at Cannes in 1978 that he sent a plane to Paris just...
Hitler also counted on Stalin's naivete. In a sense he was right. According to all witnesses, Stalin had total confidence in Hitler. To humor Hitler's extreme anti-Semitic sensibilities, the Soviet hierarchy withdrew certain Jews, such as Maxim Litvinov, the Soviet Foreign Minister, from the international scene. Stalin's order to honor the commercial agreements between the two countries was scrupulously executed, at all levels, until the beginning of hostilities: the day of German aggression, one still saw Soviet trains stuffed with raw materials heading toward German factories...
...Richlin '01 (Letters, April 3) misattributed the origin of the famous baseball maxim "Hit 'em where they ain't." While Pee Wee Reese successfully employed that strategy, it was "Wee" Willie Keeler who coined the phrase almost a century ago. The 5-foot, 4-inch Keeler led the National League in batting in 1897 with a phenomenal .432 average and is the shortest player in the Hall of Fame...