Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though he claims to chafe when his competitors make cracks about his "rug merchant" bargaining methods and his "Mediterranean" temperament, Hayek nonetheless displays what he describes as "an exaggerated amount of self- confidence. I want to look in my mirror every morning and say, 'You're great.' " His strength as a businessman, Hayek says, is that he has retained "the fantasy of a six-year-old child. If you can keep and use the curiosity of a child, you can only improve everything around you." He describes his talent as being able to spot new ways of selling "emotional" products...
...tool is brute military force of the sort used in December 1992 when Russian-manned planes from Uzbekistan helped bring down a government of Tajikistan composed of Islamic and democratic groups, and installed pro- communist rulers. In other regions, Russia prefers to flex its muscles by yanking the economic rug out from under a government -- as it did last week when Moscow began cutting off gas supplies to Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. Regardless of the medium, the message remains the same: Moscow holds -- and withholds -- the keys to survival in the near abroad. This is not so much imperialism, says...
Radcliffe's legacy is a bittersweet one. It gave women an education, but in Harvard professors' spare time. It was a stepchild, but its alumnae should be honored, not swept under the rug...
Leading the charge in the battle for more fun at Harvard has been Women Appealing for Change. If nothing else, these final club boycotters have succeeded in bringing to the fore an issue which Harvard administrators are always trying to sweep under the rug. But WAC's position has never been an extreme one. By and large these women are not concerned with violence, chauvinism and elitism (issues, alas, which will continue to be underemphasized this year). Indeed, these are the same women that have gladly patronized the clubs in the past. Their main interest is access, access...
...Germany, are out of their wealthy little minds. They live in a mansion whose ceiling is painted like the Sistine Chapel, with either Siegfried or Roy (who can remember?) in place of Adam. Roy has a "meditation chamber" (the rest of us have dressing rooms) furnished with a mystic rug and cages for his tigers. They wow the crowd with heavy machinery and endangered-species eugenics. I love S&R. They march to the beat of a different drum machine...