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What was extraordinary was how Keys, 22, handled herself following the publicity maelstrom. After her Grammy-night triumph--she missed out on Album of the Year but got a bouquet from fellow Album losers U2 with a card that said, "We're Fallin' for U2"; "It was very cute," says Keys--she went home and splurged on a dream apartment in Queens. If you are unfamiliar with the social inferences of New York City geography, a celebrity buying a dream home in Queens is like an heiress shopping for a necklace at Zales. "It's a cool part of Queens...
FILM | Changing Faces: Tragedy and Triumph...
...Offense, in this case, means looking less guilty than the other guy. Roh strategists figure the President will triumph because the prosecutors' probe will likely show the GNP, whose candidate was the favorite to win last fall's presidential elections, took in more illegal contributions. But incalculable damage to Roh's once clean image has already been done. One of the biggest embarrassments came in July when a national television network ran a videotape of Roh's personal secretary Yang Gil Seung cavorting in a sleazy nightclub south of Seoul with the club's owner?a man who has been...
...compassionate conservatism, a kinder, gentler pepper spray or water cannon might be in order. The benefits of FTAA should be so obvious that only social “misfits” and “foreign carriers of the anti-American lunacy” are apt to challenge its triumph. This week’s issue of U.S. News & World Report noted that security police had apparently taken such advice to heart and were indeed searching for less violent techniques to deal with incipient anti-FTAA unrest; but one Miami shop clerk claimed to be packing a .357 magnum just...
Keegan also studies Stonewall Jackson's brilliant use of local knowledge to lead the Union armies a frustrated chase up and down the Shenandoah Valley in 1862. There are chapters on the British disaster on Crete in 1941 ("Foreknowledge No Help"), on the Americans' immense triumph at Midway a year later (a world-historical victory that owed as much to luck, Keegan ingeniously argues, as to intelligence) and the struggle of British intelligence to locate and destroy Hitler's U-boat offensive against England...