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Designers of the latest Paris fashions owe a debt to the Latin poet Virgil for their "new" ideas. The photographs worthily exemplify his description of Venus as a huntress: nuda genu, nodoque sinus collecta fluentis [bare knee, and flowing robes gathered in a knot...
Please inform President-elect James Carter that he still doesn't owe Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo anything. It was the black vote that gave Carter Philadelphia and, in turn, Pennsylvania. For better or worse we did it for Carter, not Big Frank...
Even the colonization of the New World may owe as much to epidemic disease as to gunpowder and the quest for gold. The Aztecs, McNeill notes, were on the verge of ousting Cortes from Mexico when an outbreak of smallpox blunted their assault. The disease spared the Spanish, who had already developed some immunity, but so devastated the Indians that even 50 years later the population of central Mexico was only one-tenth what it had been before Cortes landed...
...spend years planning their congressional races. The fact that his first visit to Washington came only after he was elected to Congress immediately sets him apart from the hundreds of Harvard students who go to the city each summer on prestigious internships. He and his twin younger brothers all owe money to the government for the National Student Defense loans that helped put them through college and law school...
...Grand Rapids to vote. Perhaps it was the emotion welling up from the huge welcoming throng, perhaps it was the memories of his youth, but when he spoke to the crowd about his parents, he was near tears and his voice cracked. "Everything I have," said he, "I owe to Gerald R. Ford Sr. [long pause] and Dorothy Ford...