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Where do the top footwear tastemakers of the '90s stand vis-e-vis Earth Shoes? Manolo Blahnik, the pre-eminent European shoe designer, is an unabashed Earth Shoe fan: "It was the first shoe, [along] with the Jesus sandals, to make a social statement!" American shoe designer Kenneth Cole is another fan: "What was originally an antifashion statement 25 years ago has today become fashionable. They are a relaxed and comfortable alternative to other fashionable footwear...
...issue on Cyberspace [Spring 1995]. Your sense of a subject sorely desired and needed by the people was a work of right-on thinking. My understanding of what is going on in the computer cyber, superhighway world took a quantum leap. Efforts thus far to explain the complicated subject, vis-a-vis bits and pieces, at times confused me even further...
...Clinton Administration and in the Du Pont corporation itself. While Conoco's deal did not represent a violation of American law (the oil from the fields was not to be brought into the United States) it did constitute a gross violation of the spirit' of American policy Vis-a-vis the Islamic regime in Iran...
...questions raised by a foreign policy issue like the Conoco deal do not admit of tidy solutions. Faced with the option of making an important (if symbolic) point or maintaining a stubbornly consistent foreign policy vis-a-vis all authoritarian regimes, the Clinton Administration chose the former. It was a correct decision...
American foreign policy vis-a-vis Algeria has implications well beyond the borders of that former Soviet satellite state. How we deal with the crisis in Algeria sets an important precedent for our dealings with political Islam throughout the Middle East. More generally, our policy sets the tone for our stance on democratization--officially one of the pillars of Clintonian diplomacy--the world over...