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...French, Dunn acknowledges, faced a broader revolutionary challenge than the Americans had a few years earlier. Wresting political autonomy from a power across an ocean was not the same as toppling a thousand-year-old home-grown feudal system. But, the author argues, the French could have learned one lesson from America and thereby avoided a bloody philosophical blunder. Instead of following the Founding Fathers' careful protections of individual liberties, the French made the unity of their people the highest goal. "Curiously," Dunn writes, "all the qualities that had traditionally been attributed to the quasi-divine king--oneness, indivisibility, infallibility...
...Absolutely not. Knauss has appeared on only the following magazine covers: Ocean Drive, Country Living, Self, Hamptons and British GQ. She's also done a watch-company ad and a Panasonic commercial, and some inside shots for Allure. That's it. Technically, "supermodel" applies only to the six who gained unprecedented success in the late '80s and early '90s: Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer and Kate Moss. None of whom the Donald is currently dating...
...techno and opera), each show is an apocalyptic circus of startling imagination. Everything is designed to be an illusion--to take you in one direction and then make you refigure (the best example I can think of in "O" has a clown drifting on a raft in an ocean; a shark fin begins to swim around him and he panics; he suddenly calms down, picks up a fishing pole and hooks the fin, pulling it up to reveal a crescent moon which he gleefully hangs in the sky). It's also a decidedly French experience--it's incomparable to anything...
...chief execs of leading U.S. agri-biotech companies had heartburn last week, it wasn't because of anything they ate. Rather, it was that long-simmering European anxieties over genetically modified (g.m.) crops, like an ocean-hopping virus, had finally spread...
DIED. KIMBERLY JENSEN, 44, chief operating officer of Mort Zuckerman's publishing group; an apparent suicide; just days after being asked by company officials about money missing from an Atlantic Monthly account; in a Comfort Inn in Ocean City, Md. Her bosses reportedly allege she used company funds to cover sundry personal expenses...