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...heated debate in that country. What some describe as an appreciation of an intriguing and different tradition, others call the invasion of a detested and low-brow culture. The controversy has French teenagers exploring what's hip and what's not on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, while their parents are desperate to preserve the nation's own cultural identity...
Nixon meanwhile sat out in his beach house in San Clemente, California, reading a biography of Napoleon and staring at the ocean. But he had also been listening to some of the disputed tapes, and he had found one -- the "smoking gun" -- that threatened to destroy his whole case. It was a talk with Haldeman on June 23, 1972, a time when Nixon had long pretended to know virtually nothing about the Watergate break-in just six days earlier. This tape recorded Nixon talking with Haldeman about Mitchell's involvement, ordering a cover-up, planning...
Across the board -- and the ocean -- skirts were mostly very short. One wonders where designers spent the brutal winter just past as they designed their collections for the coming fall. (Not only were skirts scanty, but there were also plenty of bare midriffs.) Of course, the micromini phenomenon is partly phony, since clothes are shipped to stores at longer, more freeze- friendly proportions. Nonetheless, if one house shows short, others apparently feel obliged to be just as daring. Never mind that mass-market stores like the Gap are selling thousands of midcalf dresses every week. A micromini with fancy tights...
Only recently, at age 26, have I been introduced in a systematic way to the works of Western philosophers. It has been thrilling, and I am sad I did not know ham earlier. We have been playing with pebbles on the beach, while all the while the great ocean of truth lies ignored before us. Adam Cohen...
...world. There's a peace movement in Japan now, because it's impossible to live in a situation like this. Those nuclear reactors--where will they put all the waste?. With all this our children won't have any future, the earth, the air, the marine life on the ocean, the forest all will be destroyed. This is a madness, a sickness...