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...gets...um...more action than you have since college started. 10. If you ever wonder why Lady isn’t named ‘the Tramp’ after she spends the night in the park with a random mongrel and gets arrested. 11. When you notice that Peg, the saucy, lounge-singing pound ruffian, looks like Goldie Hawn…only better. 12. If you notice the Yale reference in Jim Dear and Darling’s baby preparation. Honestly, the snobbery of this aristocratic family has “Yale Legacy” written all over...
...many women not to have a family. The concept of working outside the home in order to provide a good role model for your children and the best possible education for them has not yet taken root in German society, but there are signs of change on the horizon. Peg DeRose-Schaefer Haar, Germany Gay Virtues Critic Richard Corliss's piece "How the WEST Was Won Over" described the critical acclaim received by the movie Brokeback Mountain [Jan. 30]. I only wish we could hear someone at the Academy Awards announce, "The Oscar goes to Brokeback Mountain for showing...
...anything to the end.) This doesn’t even include the long list of names I could have been called if you follow the listings of alternate forms for Margaret in any baby book. Feel free to call me Gretel, Greta, Gretchen, Rita, Margie, Margery, Madge, Peg, Peggy, Pog, Maisie, Meg, Mog, and Daisy. Well, maybe not Pog—I’ve got to draw the line somewhere.The nickname and I have a very close, and often bizarre, relationship. I began to dread the appearance of substitute teachers in elementary school who, taking attendance, would utter...
...uncertainly, have been the cause of much friction between Beijing and Washington. Another touchy area is that of China’s currency. Many U.S. trade groups accuse China of keeping the yuan artificially cheap to bolster exports. The yuan was revalued in July from a direct 8.28 peg to the U.S. dollar to an approximately 8.11 managed float, but the 2.1 percent revaluation is still far below the 10 percent wanted by Washington. These issues have all strained Sino-U.S. relations in the past few months, and that’s not even to mention North Korea talks...
...increasingly difficult challenge as their economies strengthened. Yuan reform could remove the first log from the logjam?the Japanese yen, Korean won and Thai baht all rose against the greenback immediately after China revalued. And within an hour of Beijing's announcement, Malaysia ended its 7-year-old peg of the ringgit to the dollar, which was imposed during Asia's financial crisis to help stabilize the faltering economy. Malaysia had to move almost immediately after Beijing acted, or else the speculative pressure from punters betting on a rising ringgit "would have been immense," says Manu Baskaran, a partner with...