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...nameplate this fall, among them Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh, Pa.; Filene's in Boston; Strawbridge's in Philadelphia; Foley's in Houston; Famous-Barr in St. Louis, Mo.; and Robinsons-May in Southern California. Federated has already renamed South Florida's Burdine's, Bon Marché in the Northwest, Rich's in Atlanta and Lazarus in Ohio. Only May's Lord & Taylor chain has retained its name--and it is up for sale...
...America's only predominantly Muslim nato ally. Valley of the Wolves Iraq, which is set to break Turkish box-office records, shows U.S. soldiers in Iraq as they raid a wedding, machine-gun the guests, and take survivors to a prison where a Jewish doctor removes their organs for rich people in the West. Subtle it ain't, but Turks are in a frenzy over it. Advance tickets sold out weeks ago; cabinet ministers, businessmen and even the Prime Minister's wife and daughters packed the glitzy premiere in the capital Ankara. Turkey and the U.S. are traditional allies...
...wait in vain for this catalog of tiny ironies and insights to add up to something wise and new. Is it that the foibles of rich New Yorkers are getting just a little overskewered? Or that McInerney's characters, while capable of surprising themselves and one another, never surprise us? Or that we wish they were more worthy objects of our readerly sympathy ("I've facilitated the movement of capital around the globe like a bee mindlessly carrying pollen," laments an investment banker--poor little bee!)? Or maybe there's something monstrously asymmetrical about watching the wistful ripples that...
...that are set to consume 62 percent of our total federal budget in the next decade if left unchecked.†It seems as though Congress has opted to make the U.S. more competitive by taking money from poor students to fund tax cuts for the parents of rich ones. Thankfully, there is one educational initiative that we can applaud. Coinciding with his goals outlined in the State of the Union, Bush proposed new federal grants of up to $4,000 dollars for students studying math, science, and certain foreign languages. Republicans and Democrats alike have called...
...This material really was so rich that it would be of interest to people elsewhere in the country or the world and we should do something to bring it together in a convenient form...