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According to Vendler, who was the department’s liaison to Paulin, professors are slowly doing exactly that—getting used to it. “It’s a nine days’ wonder,” she says. “Everyone says, ‘Oh, what do you know?’ and then forgets about it. It’s an awkward situation, as she herself has admitted, but you muddle along...
...makes him a pioneer is the grimness of his vision. At times it reveals too much of the backstory of the gay son of a London taxi driver who grew up in welfare housing and whose sister would run home when she had been battered by her husband. No wonder McQueen's creativity has always reeked not of the innocence of youth or joyful fripperies but of brutal experience...
...hottest stores, Colette, in Paris, is a reseller, not a brand-name designer boutique. Colette is a store as editor, picking the hottest stuff from the hottest new designers and presenting it in a techno-style space. Given the brisk traffic in the store, it's no wonder the designer chose brushed aluminum and chrome for just about everything...
However, he said, “Without belittling the horror of that day, I do sometimes wonder if America’s concentration on that one day is dangerous self-absorption,” pointing out the greater number of civilian deaths in Middle Eastern countries that the American and European media rarely mention...
...Korean crisis veered away from examining the Bush Administration's hostile attitude toward North Korea [World, Jan. 13]. Why did Bush feel he had to go beyond his already lunatic "axis of evil" remarks to say how much he personally disliked North Korean leader Kim Jong Il? No wonder the North Koreans feel that they need to have nuclear weapons. Their pride is hurt, and they're scared. The South Koreans are scared too. Seoul, a bustling city of 10.6 million, lies only 30 miles from the Demilitarized Zone. Jack Cooper Van Nuys, Calif...