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...American figures show that goods of Chinese origin totaled 0.9% of all U.S. imports. The Chinese do not include in their figures goods transshipped through Hong Kong for reexport...
Klein is betting that the look women want is one of robust health and fitness, regardless of the gender of origin. He is, after all, a winner in the designer-jeans sweepstakes. Remember Brooke Shields' line three years ago, "Do you want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." By November, when his line of undies hits the stores, the answer will be: one more pair of Calvins...
...line of work.) Married, one baby, one stepson. Summers: 40, and gets ragged about it. Loves Django Reinhardt, reggae, ska and photography. Divorced; likes to talk about his sex life. Sting: 31, born Gordon Matthew Sumner. Grew up in Wallsend, England. Bass player. Various accounts origin of nickname: ceaseless buzzing energy; onetime habit of wearing black-and-yellow striped sweaters. Discovered by Copeland playing a gig with "a couple of old jazzers" in a school classroom. Getting divorced (see Every Breath You Take); likes to talk matters intellectual. Favorite music: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony...
Peterson's remarks set off rumors, and firm denials, that he had been elbowed aside. But one close associate called the statement typical of Peterson, and attributed it to the temperament he had inherited from his Greek immigrant parents, whose surname was originally Petropoulos. Said the friend: "Everything Peterson said came from the heart. The key to the man is his Greek origin. No Anglo-Saxon could ever have made such an emotional and candid statement...
Westerners tend to locate the origin of the modern novel in the pages of Don Quixote. In fact, the first instance of fully developed narrative occurred 600 years before Cervantes in The Tale of Genji, a 1,135-page work by Lady Murasaki, a member of the court of the Empress Akiko. The 11th century work offers a panoply of "modern" elements; analyses of character, elisions of time and place, divisions into chapters...