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...HONG KONG MEYER SHOE COMPANY A pair of pointed-toe cowboy boots in green-and-purple lizard skin will cost you just $325. Prices start at $200 for basic men's loafers or women's pumps...
...Bill Clinton’s escapades, yet were on the record defending Oliver North’s lies to Congress in the Iran-Contra affair? Indeed, the asymmetry between the Right’s panicked attitude about sex and its causal stance on violence is reflected in the basic partisan dichotomy of scandal in this country: in our lifetimes, Democratic scandals tend to be sexual, while Republican ones are often violent. It was in 1984, the year most college sophomores were born, that Gary Hart’s presidential candidacy imploded because it was discovered that...
...played just basic, good squash,” junior Stephanie Hendricks said...
...likely that a definitive and comprehensive resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be based on the Geneva agreement, since it represents the maximum acceptable to the Israelis and the minimum tolerable to the Palestinians. The basic elements of the agreement already command majority support among both Israelis and Palestinians, as shown in a poll released on Nov. 24 and commissioned jointly by the James A. Baker III Institute at Rice University and the International Crisis Group...
...curious about Joe Eszterhas' memoir, Hollywood Animal (Knopf; 736 pages). Really. It's perfectly natural. After all, Eszterhas is the most (or maybe the only) famous screenwriter in the business, best known for hitting commercial gold in 1983 with Flashdance and again in 1992 with Basic Instinct. He also has several notorious craters to his credit, including Jade and Showgirls. But a word of advice: given its ample girth and its very low signal-to-noise ratio, you might want to approach Hollywood Animal with this handy guide...