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...drug reps who try to cozy up to future doctors long before they can write prescriptions. Instead of chowing down on a free sales-pitch sandwich, students--who are usually buried in debt and years away from making a salary--are being asked to brown-bag it. A tall order, but it beats the hospital cafeteria...
...cowboy of French politics is sitting tall in the saddle again. Six months after his re-election to the French presidency, Jacques Chirac is out to shoot down those who presumed to write off his country as a serious international player. Over the past two weeks, Chirac forced the Bush Administration toward a weaker U.N. resolution on Iraq; he bushwhacked would-be reformers of the E.U.'s costly Common Agricultural Policy (cap), thus preserving lucrative subsidies for French farmers. In September he sent troops to Africa to prop up a threatened regime in France's former colony, Ivory Coast. These...
...formidable matrons, Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Pulham and Mrs. Tudor. One of the most striking things about the Congo Gestures show at the Musée Dapper is the size of some of its 110 carved wooden nkisi figures. While most nkisi figures - ritual religious statues - are about 20-cm tall, this exhibit displays some reaching nearly 1.2 m as they stand, left hand on hip, right arm brandishing a dagger. In the elaborate vocabulary of Congolese sculpture, this is a gesture of strength, meant to ward off evil. Painted eyes covered with transparent glass signify clairvoyance; eyes nearly closed denote...
Ideal mate: Tall, athletic and funny. And I guess cute would be nice...
...darkest secrets before being fired by Richard Nixon for refusing to embroil the agency in a Watergate cover-up; in Washington, D.C. Helms played a critical role in plotting the assassination attempts on foreign leaders (including Cuba's Fidel Castro) and overthrowing Marxist Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1971. Tall and dashingly good-looking, Helms mastered the art of spy craft at the wartime Office of Strategic Services before it became...