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NADYA LABI, in three years at TIME, has written about the schoolyard killings in Jonesboro, Ark., and the crash of Swiss Air Flight 111. In this week's American Scene, she weighs in on a brighter topic: the culture clash in a small city outside Los Angeles, where certain residents paint their homes in vivid yellows and pinks, to the distress of some of their neighbors. While she appreciated the change of topic, the trip wasn't so lighthearted as she anticipated. "I didn't know colors could provoke such strong emotions," she says. Labi, who is moving into...
Hermila Sanchez wanted a house that she could find in the dark. Muted pastels were the predominant colors in her hometown of South Gate, 10 miles south of Los Angeles, where the dusty heat further blanches the stucco residences to uniformity. But Home Depot's Navajo White and Swiss Coffee were not for Sanchez. And so, for her very first home, the accountant chose blue. Not a dainty cornflower or staid navy but the kind of blue that makes your eyes sting on a bright...
...Pentagon money (almost $900 million so far) for the research. In 1993 he bucked his party and backed Clinton on gays in the military; last week a leading gay-rights organization, the Human Rights Campaign, was mulling a D'Amato endorsement. And in 1996 D'Amato held hearings exposing Swiss banks for hoarding the property of Holocaust victims, a crusade featured...
...itching to get back out there," Poirier says on a brief shore leave after 10 straight days of diving at the crash site. While on break, he sent an e-mail to the Swiss embassy website, offering condolences to the families and promising that divers were doing their best. Being of service, he says, "is all that keeps us sane...
Late last month, the Swiss-based Anne Frank Fonds (foundation), which holds the rights to all of Frank's writings, threatened to sue the Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool after it ran previously unpublished pages from Anne's diary about the elder Franks' relationship. The paper would not divulge the source of its story. But the prime suspect is Cor Suijk, a senior official at the Anne Frank Center in New York City and a source for German journalist Melissa Muller's new and well-timed biography Anne Frank (Metropolitan Books; 330 pages...