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Lady Bird never liked the term "beautification." What she was doing went beyond that, something to hold the land, bring grace and meaning to scarred lives. "You reporters come up with another word," she used to say. But nobody has yet. Maybe it was unnecessary because she was her own symbol, a woman very much in harmony with the natural world around her. She rafted down rivers, camped out in the national parks, studied ruins. She also founded what is now named the Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center at the University of Texas...
...role arranging what must have been lucrative deals for China's "principal players," there's a deeper reason Kissinger enjoys such support from the leadership: he seems to agree with them on the paramount importance of stability. As the author Robert D. Kaplan has suggested, for Kissinger "the key word is 'revolution,' something that [his] experience as a youth [in Nazi Germany], augmented by scholarship, taught him to fear." Deng Xiaoping cleared Tiananmen Square by force in 1989 in part because of vivid memories of the luan, or chaos, caused by rampaging Red Guards; Nazi Brown Shirts would have made...
...working as a 19-year-old assistant to the Paris couturier Jean Desses - displayed as if in a pagan ritual, culminating at an ancient altar. The first room, all elaborately beaded dresses and coats, suggested the "seed" of an idea. That progressed to a "Peace" dress - white, with the word peace embroidered all over it - which Valentino had designed during the Gulf War. Two dozen white dresses are arranged as if marching toward the altar, surrounded by a "chorus" of dresses in the designer's signature...
...orderly market. That's why they introduced a new securities law a year ago, and it's also why, bankers in China say, they wanted to give retail investors a shot at investing in well known companies. "For the last year," says a western banker in Hong Kong, "the word has definitely gone out that solid, state-run companies already trading in Hong Kong should consider IPOs on the mainland." If, in the process, that diverted some savings that was otherwise serving to drive up the price apartments in Shanghai - and it definitely did - that was fine...
...those who disagree; who don’t understand my adoration for the truly printed word; who believe the news is better in binary code: I’m sorry I wasted your time, but you can sate yourself with the fact that I didn’t waste any paper...