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After the collapse of the coup in August 1991, the people of Leningrad voted to call their city St. Petersburg once more. When Brodsky, who had been exiled from the city in 1964, was asked about the news, he smiled and said, "Better to have named it for a saint than a devil...
...self-respecting Southern restaurant would shudder at the thought of portabella mushrooms and goat cheese. Any self-respecting Southern restaurant would put mesclun greens on its menu only under the very threat of death. However, this is Cambridge, where Ralph Waldo Emerson proclaimed John Brown a saint for his raid on Harper's Ferry and where the Mason-Dixon feels about as far south as the equator. Around here, good Southern cooking is as hard to find as the old Stars and Bars. But who really cares, when the result of a fusion of Southern and yuppie cuisine...
...predecessor, Karl Lagerfeld, who snapped to Women's Wear Daily, "I think they should have taken a big name. They did--but in music, not fashion." McCartney, despite her age (she is 26), was in fact no novice to garmentmaking. She had attended London's venerable Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the alma mater as well of John Galliano and Alexander McQueen (designers also snatched up to oversee ailing French houses). For extra training during her school years, she served as a tailor's apprentice to learn the art of Savile Row suitmaking...
...noticed how few women appeared on the covers you selected. Out of 89 covers, there were eight featuring identifiable women. "Let's see," we could tell our daughters, "you could be a glamorous sex symbol (Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna or 'All-American Model' Cheryl Tiegs), a 'Living Saint' (Mother Teresa), an outlaw (the fictional Thelma or Louise) or a princess (Diana, of course)." Thank goodness for Jackie Joyner-Kersee. BARBARA HEALY SMITH Milton, Mass...
...Lewis, son of poor Alabama farmers, said, "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?" Lewis, who led the marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, and went on to become a U.S. Congressman years later, emerges as a kind of saint, the best of the best...