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...upper-middle-class girl, Nanny, who takes a part-time job looking after Grayer Addison X, the 4-year-old scion of the Xs, a wealthy family with serious boundary issues. As plots go, it's not exactly Tom Clancy, but the novel's niftiness lies in Nanny's keen eye for detail. She's Mary Poppins channeling Dorothy Parker. She notes, for example, that at Halloween children are dressed as grownups while their caregivers are belittled: tiny Snow Whites shadowed by large dwarfs. Not to mention that the nannies' costumes are breathtakingly unsuitable for chasing toddlers...
...million. No such participatory problems for Mike Tyson. In spite of the boxer's troubled past, authorities in Washington, D.C. voted to give Tyson a license to fight world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis on June 8. An April bout between the two had been called off after Tyson, apparently keen to fight anytime, anywhere, brawled with Lewis and his bodyguards at a press conference in January...
...SMELL OF THE KILL Studies of skulls and braincases indicate that T. rex had a keen sense of smell, a key weapon in tracking prey. The dinosaur's nostrils have been repositioned as well: closer to the end of its snout rather than its eyes...
...caravans from Damascus or leaky boat journeys a la Lord Jim. Only pilgrims from Red Sea ports in Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Yemen are allowed to come to the Hajj in ships. The rest, about 80%, arrive by air at a massive terminal near Jeddah. Saudi authorities are always keen to pick out drug smugglers and thieves; this year they are more determined than ever to prevent any terrorists from slipping in. (In 1987, Iranian pilgrims went on an anti-U.S. riot that caused more than 400 deaths.) An American security firm specializing in biometric face identification has been...
...same heads of government, meeting last December at the Palace of Laeken in Brussels, plumped for Giscard to head the Convention. Though he is certainly an ideal avatar of French grandeur, with his aristocratic bearing and keen intelligence, many have questioned Giscard's credentials for pointing the E.U. toward a future of greater democratic legitimacy. Before Thursday's session kicked off, many Convention members were up in arms over Giscard's proposed rules of procedure, which give the 12-person Presidium strong powers for setting the debate. "Giscard knows he's not a popular man in this house," says Andrew...