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Every once in a while, Shania Twain will munch on a carrot stick, whip her curly hair over her shoulder and issue a modest decree. It is worth paying attention to these pronouncements, even though Twain, who is Canadian and thus constitutionally averse to star trips, never quite means what she says. On a brisk October night, with the bleat of Paris traffic in her ears, the Twain fiat is this: she is going to stop singing in public. "I never burned to perform, and I don't care if I ever perform again," she says. "I have no need...
Telyan, too, finds fault with the current political system. She plans to fund her future campaigns without succumbing to entanglements with interest groups. “I’ve always been suspicious of people who try to parse the political discussion in twain,” she says. “You need people who are beholden to no one but the issues...
...crowded police-court docket, said Mark Twain, is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty. The current season would seem to bear him out, with a slight twist. There is brisk betting and plentiful money riding on a schedule that is up to its antenna in crooks and crime, cops and private eyes, crusading attorneys and special investigators. In all, there are 29 crime shows on the network schedules, accounting for roughly 21 of the 63 prime-time hours each week... Attempts to vary that formula have stretched as far as TV writers' imaginations can fetch...
...encouraging reading and the love of literature. This book festival comes just a month after the First Lady’s latest writing symposium. A librarian and schoolteacher, Laura Bush has thrown her energy behind infusing the White House with some literary culture, and has held symposiums on Mark Twain, the Harlem Renaissance and writers in the American West—all of which drew literature experts and enthusiasts alike. Needless to say, the President attended as well...
...gaming rooms of the Monte Carlo casino; through Elizabeth Foster, an elderly woman unaccountably stuck in Nice throughout World War II; to teenager Abby Green, who took a language course in the city in 1994 and found the topless bathing "liberating." One American who never visited Nice was Mark Twain. "Travel," he wrote in 1869, "is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness" - but then he never met the hordes following the lock-step of all-inclusive tours. Yet even in Twain's era many observers were aghast that tourism was making places like Nice increasingly dependent on revenues from...