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...real wonder of the Mitchell Gold Co. is that its reach has consistently exceeded its limits. For all the ubiquity of those brown leather club chairs, they were an initial disaster. Gold and Williams picked up a pair of 1930s vintage chairs at a flea market outside Paris in 1994. But they were too small for 1990s American legs. When they approached leather wholesalers with their order, Gold and Williams found that American companies were not prepared for them: they could buy white leather or teal leather, but not basic brown. What's more, the key to the chairs...
...Russia is desperately poor and China faces serious population pressure. Is it even faintly realistic to expect them to turn off the flow of foreign investment to save a bird, however lovely? Matthiessen doesn't overly dwell on environmental realpolitik. Birds of Heaven is a record of dedicated wonder in the face of natural beauty and the wisdom that wonder can bring. For, as he writes, "if one has truly understood a crane?or a leaf or a cloud or a frog?one has understood everything...
...Shortly after the battle began, U.S. intelligence detected hundreds of al-Qaeda sympathizers streaming toward the front lines from Pakistan. American officials wonder why such reinforcements would set off on a suicide mission unless they thought their leaders were trapped. American forces believe they have identified one "high-value target" in the valley, distinguished by the extent of his protection. Sardar Khan Zadran, a local commander, told TIME that last Wednesday, at a checkpoint on a mountain road leading to Khost, American-trained Afghan militiamen frisked two tribesmen and found an audiotape of bin Laden, some photographs...
...sounds worried, no wonder. Less than two months before May 15 national parliamentary elections, Melkert and the Dutch political establishment now have to face up not only to their own electoral mishap, but also to a potentially powerful demagogic force. Some polls suggest that his newly formed national party, Fortuyn List, could land as many as 18 of the 150 seats in the lower house of parliament, enough to play a key role in the formation of a new government coalition...
With the specter of prison hovering over their heads, I wonder how well Suzanne M. Pomey ’02 and Randy J. Gomes ’02 sleep at night. I occasionally have trouble sleeping the night before a big test and that is a trifle of a trial compared to what awaits these alleged partners in crime. In a way, however, their impending prosecution might seem like a small relief after the persecution they have received on campus in these tabloidal weeks since their story broke. At least you can count on a judge and jury...