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...midweek some of the immediate edge had been removed from L.A. County's predicament. By obtaining a letter of credit (essentially, insurance against default) from a group of Swiss, German and U.S. banks, the county soothed enough investors to sell $1.3 billion in short-term bonds at a favorable rate. The Board of Supervisors agreed on $267 million in cuts, but put off a decision on County-USC until next month. Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors will ask Governor Pete Wilson for relief from some costly unfunded mandates, as well as asking the state legislature for permission to levy...
...pity that the only other establishments permanently open for business are Store 24 and Christy's. Nevertheless, there is much to chow on. We recommend the microwaveable bologna and swiss or the frozen Hungry Man. The Hostess products are always a safe bet. A caveat to weary consumers: Pepperidge Farm box sets are overpriced beyond belief...
...ready for the daily double if you responded: 1) Who is Claude Francois Denecourt, nicknamed "le Silvain"? 2) What is Mons Pilatus in the Swiss Alps? and 3) What is Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama? Author of iconoclastic, groundbreaking studies of the French Revolution (Citizens) and the Netherlands during its 17th century Golden Age (The Embarrassment of Riches), Schama is one of those rare, imaginative historians who do more than impose order on the known past. He introduces readers to a kind of yesteryear they never dreamed existed...
Demonizing the Alps, however, was far from universal. The naturalist Conrad Gesner, who climbed Mons Pilatus in 1555 to disprove its diabolic reputation, thought of the Alps as the "work of the Sovereign Architect." To 19th century Romantics, the Swiss mountains were symbols of virtue, and the herdsmen who dwelt there paradigms of primitive democracy. Thus the Alps through history have been rather like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: you never know what meaning you'll find inside them...
...been, variously and with high spirit, a U.S. fighter pilot shot down in the Mediterranean in World War II, a billionaire, an ex-billionaire, a bank robber, a wholehearted lover of women, a convicted killer while still a teenager and, as a result of that, an inmate in a Swiss sanatorium during his high school years. But what he has been most consistently, through all the splendidly entertaining capers and calamities that Helprin invents for him, is what people call, in short...