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...midst of Zouping is a village of 1,100 where Wu Baohua, 57, has been Communist Party secretary for 25 years. Wu is soft-spoken and polite, and his face expresses a sanguine dignity without a trace of self-importance. Then there are his teeth, big strong Jimmy Carter teeth. Separately, each one could win a prize. Taken together, the effect is electric. You could read fine print at the bottom of a well by his grin...
From supermodel Suzy Parker in the 1950s to Christie Brinkley in the early 1980s, fair-skinned models used to dominate advertising. Most ad experts trace the change to Europe, where couturiers, notably Givenchy, began employing black women as runway models. The French fashion magazine Elle helped pioneer the polyethnic look in its editorial pages, then exported the philosophy to America when it launched a U.S. edition four years ago. (Catherine Alain- Bernard, fashion and beauty editor of the French Elle, says her magazine still gets a few letters from people complaining about black models and "giving jobs to immigrants...
Other additions include a call-number search and a "trace" function to find related books in a particular subject, Tallent said...
Other new features in the Harvard On-Line Library Information System (HOLLIS) include a call-number search which will make it possible for a user to find books by their Dewey decimal numbers, Tallent said. He said students will also be able to use a "trace" command when looking at a listing, so they can find other books on the same subject...
...recollections are part of our look back at one of the 20th century's watershed events -- the beginning of World War II. (A second installment next week will trace the war up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.) Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski spoke to John Borrell about his family's flight to Lithuania three weeks after the invasion, while Otto von Habsburg, son of Austria-Hungary's last Emperor, detailed for Gertraud Lessing the incongruously lavish meal he ate at the Ritz in Paris the night the government fled the city. Franz Spelman, who visited filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler...