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Did you hear the one about the half-Armenian woman in Bombay, with a weakness for baklava, who was introduced by her lover, the procuress, to a gigolo from the Seychelles known as Raper George? When her husband -- a 7-ft., entirely bald Azerbaijani all-in wrestler with gold-capped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heat And Lust: EVENINGS AT MONGINI'S AND OTHER STORIES by Russell Lucas | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

In any event, the Iraqis have cooled to the E.C. Punishing the Community for revoking an earlier offer to meet him in Rome, Aziz turned down invitations earlier this month to confer in Luxembourg and Algiers with an E.C. delegation headed by Luxembourg's Foreign Minister, Jacques Poos. The Iraqis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Gasps on the Negotiation Trail | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

While the great majority of the 12,000-man Panamanian police force remained loyal to their President, the fact that Endara did not rely on them to put down the rebellion is a sign of serious political weakness. The Herrera episode was also a setback for U.S. interests in Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama Once More To the Rescue | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

The most appealing argument the department could make for the relative strength of its British scholarship is that it is impossible to understand the American literary tradition without first understanding its British precursor. This assertion is legitimate, but it does not excuse the weakness of the American curriculum here. An...

Author: By Kelly A. E. mason, | Title: Stop Teaching English Lit. | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

Will Saddam proceed shrewdly? Might he seize on Baker's visit to claim victory and retreat? Those who have dealt with him most closely in the past, his Arab neighbors, think not. "He believes in American weakness and sees everything through that prism," says an Egyptian official. For example, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadline: Jan. 15 | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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