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Human beings are driven by all sorts of passions and base instincts, and some of them lead one to put pen to paper. Perhaps in writing this very column I was seeking to curry favor with professors or marginalize threats to my worldview, moved by some denizen of the dark unconscious. And perhaps in reading this column in context with other sources one should keep these interests in mind...
...After one briefcase-sniffing dog, one X-ray machine, and a lot of ushering through corridors by the NYSE?s swamped but immaculately mannered press-handlers, we reached our quarantine in the exchange?s ad hoc press pen. A vaulted-ceilinged, red-carpeted, den-of-J.P. Morgan room with a long mahogany table and oil portraits of NYSE chairmen past on rococo-detailed walls. No view of the exchange floor. No windows...
...give you a rule," Rumsfeld said last Friday, an hour or so after he announced that he would let the services reform themselves. He put pen to yellow foolscap and spoke as he wrote. "It goes something like this: 'If you deal with a senior officer, you can be almost absolutely certain that he is capable of doing a number of things very, very well--even though the thing you are dealing with him on may not be one of those things...
...West Berlin. At 2 a.m. there were sirens, then the rumble of tanks on the East Berlin cobblestones. East German troops carrying rolls of barbed wire, concrete pillars, stone blocks, picks, and shovels leapt out of their trucks. Four hours later, millions of Berliners lived in a huge communist pen which over the next decade would be broadened and built into an automated armed fortress of steel and concrete -a fortress which stood as a monstrous rebuke to freedom...
Overfishing has depleted stocks of sturgeon in the northern Caspian Sea, and in response, Russia and several of its neighbors recently restricted their harvests of the caviar-bearing fish. That could offer an opportunity for U.S. producers of caviar from pen-raised sturgeon, led by the pioneering Stolt Sea Farm of Elverta, Calif. But do the texture and taste measure up? We asked the executive chefs of two of New York City's top seafood restaurants--Rick Moonen of Oceana, pictured, and Marcus Samuelsson of Aquavit--to sample unmarked servings of Russian Osetra caviar and Sterling Classic brand, produced...