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...blanket-bundled spectators who will line the shores Sunday starting at 11 a.m., sipping rum and feasting on fried chicken, the regatta is a reminder of what rowing used to be. As they admire the precision and the colors, and revel in the bygone aristocratic ambience, most are unaware of the dog-eat-dog competition--the aggressive rowing, shrewd steering, even the confidence in a coxswain's voice--which separates the winners from the nature lovers...
...lived on the Indian side in summertime. By three in the afternoon, the picture windows are dark with myriad blackflies whose incessant buzzing makes silence unbearable. The scourge of the summer months, these minute beasts congregate in St. Augustine to revel in the poor drainage, ubiquitous trash and human filth. Most of the Indian children are under 12, and their resistance has not yet developed. They are beseiged with impetigo--a skin disease manifesting itself in open sores all over the body. Every blackfly bite that is scratched becomes an oozing sore, attracting more flies. Relief is guaranteed only with...
...absent-minded magician performs a couple of genuine miracles, transforming wine into water and raising a man from the dead. The show under the big top is even more spectacular. It offers a unicorn that pops balloons with its horn, a sphinx that asks riddles, a Walpurgisnacht revel attended by witches and presided over by Satan himself and, for the jaded, the sacrifice of a beautiful virgin...
JEAN-FRANÇOIS REVEL, French author (Neither Marx nor Jesus): A great leader has original ideas and succeeds in having them accepted by millions or billions. These ideas can be wonderful or dreadful. Thus I have chosen the Athenian philosopher Epicurus and Adolf Hitler-the best and the worst. Epicurus because he defined a model way of life that was followed and is still followed today by many billions of people, which makes them happy without hurting anyone. Hitler because he had as much influence, although of an evil sort, through his ideas, which meant misery and destruction...
...those currents flowing with him after he settles in at the Elysée. For a man who has been in public life for so long, he is, apart from his fiscal views, a surprisingly unknown quantity. Some political analysts, like L'Express Editor Jean-François Revel, feel that Giscard has proved himself a good Finance Minister and therefore will be a good President, a man who sees with clarity the problems and needs of his people. Others are not so sure. "Giscard never had a vision of the social problems of France in this campaign," says...