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...President finds himself in an exceedingly odd position for a post-Reagan Republican. He is acting like a Democrat, standing for abstract principles and high-minded long-term projects in the face of a public demanding easy answers and immediate results. His Middle East-democracy campaign is Wilsonian. His support for the Dubai ports deal is reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's support for relinquishing control of the Panama Canal-difficult to explain politically but in the nation's best long-term interests. Does anyone actually believe that the management suits in Dubai would run those ports any differently from...
...crown.“I’m not quite used to this,” Delaney-Smith said. “I really haven’t had very many years where we weren’t in the title hunt. It’s very odd to me. We’ve never been out of it this early, and it makes me hungrier for next year.”—Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...
...whose bronzed, leonine visage is familiar from talk shows and gossip columns. "BHL," as he is known at home, exploded onto the literary scene at age 28 with Barbarism with a Human Face, in which he excoriated Marxist intellectuals for complicity in communist horrors. In 30-odd books since then, he has remained provocative and, unusually for a French thinker, pro-American. "I have been coming to the U.S. for 40 years," says Lévy, 57, from an airport lounge in Washington, amid a punishingly long book tour. "My wife [Connecticut-born actress Arielle Dombasle] is Franco-American...
...Puumba once," he says, referring to a grade-school interpretation of Disney’s "The Lion King." The role seems odd now. Kaszynski—originally from Warsaw, Poland—is blonde and beaming, hardly a porcine presence...
...full-swing. Women who seem to be dressed for the unofficial Dyke Ball, which was rumored to take place underground this year, stroll through the door. They wear bathrobes and bumper stickers, adding even more character to a party composed of biker babes and women in drag. The odd pair of breasts or pair of women kissing can be spotted at the party, but while some male guests ogle, everyone else is nonplussed. Indeed, more provocative actions were perhaps occurring concurrently in the Winthrop dining hall that night...