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...fight terrorism, this latest piece of lex Americana, a sample of Washington's father-knows-best attitude, outrages allies who do dispute U.S. methods. Just last March, Clinton approved a similar bill threatening foreign companies active in Cuba. What this is really about, argues French Foreign Ministry spokesman Yves Doutriaux, "is one nation telling the rest on earth what they can and can't do. Is that right?" The European Union, Canada and Mexico definitely do not think so, and their officials are looking at ways to hit back...
...growing economy, it will be forced to satisfy the cravings of its people for more freedom. We Americans can no longer afford to play the role of world arbiter. The costs of the cold war have already ruined us. Let's not start another round of armchair geopolitics. YVES LIEOU Longmeadow, Massachusetts...
...these reasons the modern age of deep-sea exploration had to wait for two key technological developments: engineer Otis Barton's 1930 invention of the bathysphere--essentially a deep-diving tethered steel ball--and the invention of scuba (short for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus") by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan in 1943. Swimmers had been trying to figure out how to get oxygen underwater for thousands of years. Sponge divers in ancient Greece breathed from air-filled kettles; bulky-helmeted diving suits linked by hose to the surface first appeared in the 1800s. But it wasn't until...
Audrey, Jackie and Grace are gone, but a crowd of HUBERT DE GIVENCHY'S peers, including Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino and Christian Lacroix came out to pay homage to the 68-year-old designer as he presented his last haute-couture collection ever. He departed with class, as he arrived, playing classical music and sharing his standing ovation with his entire atelier. Givenchy hands the bodkin of his eponymous house over to 34-year-old English designer JOHN GALLIANO, not such a classical-music kind of guy. Recently, Givenchy's relationship with his backers has been strained, but the couturier...
...scholarship was awarded to James Antoine and second-place winner Yves-Nine Brunache, two seniors at West Roxbury High School in Boston...