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Years ago, I put on the record what I had learned about blue jeans at Southwest High School, in Kansas City, Mo.: "Anybody who wears jeans that are not Levi or Lee is a nerd, a creep, a wonk, and walks like a duck." What binds Weyrich and me together, I realized, is that we believe in an absolute standard of behavior, what used to be called the eternal verities; we deplore what he would probably call relativist morals and I would call a lot of people being willing to go around dressed like dorks...
...since. Falae is a Yale-educated economist who served as Babangida's finance minister, although he campaigned against Obasanjo on the grounds of the general's links with the military. The deeper issue may be tribal: Falae and Obasanjo are both members of the Christian Yoruba tribe from the southwest, but Obasanjo has the backing of much of the north, the Muslim Hausa-Fulani elite who run the military. The Yoruba and the southeastern Igbo people are bitterly resentful that successive military governments have plundered the wealth derived from the rich oil fields of the impoverished south...
Negotiators for the two sides have been locked up in a 14th century castle in Rambouillet, southwest of Paris, under orders from European foreign ministers to come up with an autonomy agreement in two weeks for the province's 2 million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians. But after a week of bluster and posturing, almost nothing has been decided. The Serbs refused even to talk about the text of a possible agreement, engaging instead in a series of diplomatic maneuvers that did nothing but kill time. About the only thing the two delegations could agree on was that...
...area stretches southwest from the Theater District and westward along the Mass Pike until Copley Square. The "Emerald Necklace" laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, Class of 1894, borders it on the west. Its southern border is less distinct, eventually melting into northern Roxbury along an ambiguous dividing line...
Tremont Street made a nasty cut to the southwest and as I continued along Shawmut Drive. I stepped out of swanky brownstone-lined streets...