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...three imperial moments, then, we have had three different Columbuses -- each telling us something about a different age. Only our third period is a postimperial moment. We Americans have been able to rejoice at the collapse of the Soviet empire. But we were mild (to say the least) in our celebrations as European colonial systems dissolved over the last half of the century, creating a whole map of new nations in a Third World that contains most of the globe's population...
Today: Partly sunny, breezy and mild. Highs in the 70s. Tomorrow: Chance of showers, highs...
...antics of Rubin, Mazie and several others disrupted a University tour and drew mild chuckles from bystanders. Most passing students and tourists reacted with amusement to the sight of Rubin and Mazie, their necks connected by a yellow rope draped with an American flag. One man, apparently unamused, uttered an expletive before quickly walking away...
...George Bush's educational goals, including the idea of school Choice, and he is using his soft-spoken salesmanship to market them to Congress and the American public. The role is the most challenging yet for the man named by Bush as Secretary of Education last December, whose mild and courteous demeanor masks a high-octane ambition. His goal is to transform the Department of Education, which Ronald Reagan once pledged to abolish, from a backwater operation in the shadow of the Air and Space Museum into one of Washington's leading domestic agencies...
...tiny amount of celery extract a day; a 150-lb. human would have to gobble four large stalks for the same proportionate intake. Stalks, however, unlike extract, contain lots of undesirable salt. The cardio-friendly ingredient in celery is a compound called phthalide that may also exert a mild sedative effect on humans...