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...Westphalian system," after the 1648 Peace of Westphalia that ended Europe's Thirty Years War, a time of indescribable carnage waged in the name of competing religions. The treaties that ended the war put domestic arrangements - like religion - off limits to other states. In the war's aftermath a rough-and-ready commitment to a balance of power among neighbors took shape. Kissinger is a noted scholar of the balance of power. And he is suspicious of attempts to meddle in the internal business of others. In a book that drips with devastating, if understated, contempt for the Clinton Administration...
...seaplane, northwest from Male. The development (motto: "No shoes, no news") specializes in rustic chic: there are TVs, minibars, quadraphonic sound and a spa, but all are hidden in well-spaced thatched villas tucked in a beachfront jungle. Floors are sand or tiled, electronics are concealed and furniture is rough-hewn wood or rattan. Guests also dress to blend in. But then, why would you need to show off when just being there sets you above hoi polloi: the cheapest low-season rate is $391 for two people per day, and in the high season, $2,926. "Sometimes when guests...
...calypso, common burdock, spotted knapweed, hairy willow herb, purple saxifrage, red baneberry, slender glasswort, toadshade, climbing bittersweet, birdsfoot trefoil, moth mullein, smooth false foxglove, showy rattlebox, prince's plume, agrimony, squawroot, mouse-ear hawkweed, rattlesnake weed, coltsfoot, tickseed sunflower, Jerusalem artichoke, sneezeweed, swollen bladderwort, clammy ground cherry, purslane, muskflower, rough-fruited cinquefoil, climbing boneset...
...shuffles around the recording studio in fluffy red slippers, looking like a teenager on a sleepover at a girlfriend's house. Professionally, though, she's maturing fast. For one thing, Monheit knows how not to let her critics get any traction. What did she think about a particularly rough piece in the New York Times magazine last December? "I learn something from everyone who writes about me," she says, with hardly any coyness...
...passenger seems to be in for a rough ride. Last February, the Swiss shook up AOM's management team and brought in veteran airline executive Marc Rochet to head the ailing company. He came up with a plan, announced May 21, to stem the losses within three years by cutting unprofitable routes and eliminating 1,328 out of 7,400 jobs. Rochet's announcement triggered a chain reaction of strikes and demonstrations by AOM-Air Liberté employees...