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...first kiss: It was a boy named Robin who I tried to pin to the clay table and kiss. He bore an uncanny resemblance to Popeye...
...separate legislators from their constituents. Earlier this month, he scolded his staff for holding a meeting at a ryotei -- an expensive, traditional Japanese restaurant often used by Diet members to broker deals. From now on, he told them, use less pricey hotels. He avoids wearing his legislator's lapel pin, though this has incurred the ire of the country's 10,000 pinmakers. "I never liked that sense of boasting, 'I'm a Diet man,' " says Tokyo housewife Seiko Arai. "The times were waiting for an up-to-date leader like this...
China certainly has the credentials to be the United States' chief rival: A huge military force and a strong economy. Its annual gross domestic product is growing twice as fast as ours, and its `standing army,' whose exact size is hard to pin down, surely dwarfs our volunteer force. The United States hasn't negotiated nuclear arms reductions with China the way it has with the former Soviet Union. In a conventional or nuclear showdown, the United States' only military advantage could be technology...
...Harvard, the question becomes even more specific. "What house do you live in?" we ask, in order to pin random dinner companions down to one of 12 personality types...
...time Rodriguez gave TIME this account from a hospital bed in Landstuhl, Germany -- in an interview cut short by a general who arrived to pin a Purple Heart on him -- the rest of the world knew why the rescue had been so delayed. Just as his unit was being shot at, the Rangers storming the building near the Olympic Hotel looking for Aidid were also being hit by murderous fire. (Aidid's supporters were actually meeting in a building next to the hotel. Aidid was not there, though senior U.S. officials insist the Rangers missed him by only two minutes...