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Though Pickens was rebuffed, his Tokyo crusade may pay other dividends. Pickens is believed to be interested in making a run for the Texas governorship, so his Japanese offensive may be calculated to play well back home. Koito, for its part, is launching its own publicity offensive, contending that if...
So christened and so stocked, the Oliver Peoples shop opened on a tony patch of Sunset Boulevard, and has rapidly become the hippest name in eyewear. Selling a combination of Peoples antiques (at an average of $200 a pop), timely improvisations on his vintage designs ($90 to $225) and original...
This dramatic account added one more layer of controversy to a case that has troubled the intelligence community for two years. But as with Bracy's confession, Government investigators have nothing to substantiate it. In yet another twist to the controversy, a highly classified intelligence-community assessment that circulated in...
There are many people around Washington these days who say Bush actually looks different. One of his principal aides claims that three or four times recently, when discussing highly charged issues like the upheavals in China, Bush has cooled his own emotions with the line "I'm the President now...
...novel My Secret History, Paul Theroux offers an affectionate and accurate sketch of his friend and mentor. The character's name is S. Prasad, but the facts and mannerisms are V.S. Naipaul's: "He was an unusual alien: he knew everything about England, he had an Oxford degree, owned his own house, and had published half a shelf of books. He had won five literary prizes . . . Still, he called himself an exile. He said he didn't belong -- he looked it in his winter coat. Seeing me, he frowned with satisfaction...