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My other law kicks in when, partly because of the intensity of White House media coverage, the incumbent begins to grate on your nerves. By the time George Bush the Elder left the White House, you were tired of him and tired of Kennebunkport and tired of all those numbingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Bring Back Millie | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

Wretched salaries are not the only source of demoralization. Living conditions would provoke a mutiny in many countries. Sergei, the Spetsnaz noncommissioned officer, lives in a slum. Officially called noncommissioned officers' married quarters, his single room measures 5 ft. by 8 ft., and he lives there with his wife and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sinister Force | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

In a similarly obsessive vein, I've watched "Breakfast at Tiffany's" at least 30 times. My dorm room walls are flanked with original "Breakfast at Tiffany's" movie posters in three languages. Admittedly, Audrey Hepburn looks marginally better than yours truly in her slinky black dress--after all, she...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, | Title: Endpaper: Play it Again, Sam | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

In a similarly obsessive vein, I've watched "Breakfast at Tiffany's" at least 30 times. My dorm room walls are flanked with original "Breakfast at Tiffany's" movie posters in three languages. Admittedly, Audrey Hepburn looks marginally better than yours truly in her slinky black dress--after all, she...

Author: By Terry E. E. chang, | Title: Play it again, Sam | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

Optimistic Horace graces this venerable passageway. Translation: "Thrice happy and more are they whom an unbroken band unites, and whom no sundering of love by wretched quarrels shall separated before life's dying day" (Odes: 1.13). In short, friendship is good for the soul.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RITES OF PASSAGE | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

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