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...carefully calibrated French reaction is significant, notes TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. "What may be little known is that President Clinton and French president Chirac have consulted regularly and at length on the phone as the Iraqi crisis has unfolded in the past few months." As a result of these close consultations, the two countries have been able to play a good-cop, bad-cop role with Saddam that's allowed the French to give "friendly advice" to Saddam -- backed by the U.S. military. That kind of cooperation has averted strikes in the past. While the French are espousing...
Unfortunately, nobody can really talk to each other around those mega-tables. The length of the square is so large that the person directly across from you sits in a different ZIP code. The closest thing friends can do to approach the old face-to-face intimacy of the single tables is to cluster around a corner of the square. But even this maneuver requires a good bit of neck agility. That new setup pushes people apart...
...NCAA refuses to switch to a playoff--the season would be a similar length, the schools would get a ton of money and ratings would be incredible. Wouldn't you want to watch Kansas State, UCLA, Ohio State, Tennessee and Florida State play each other...
...seem standard. Maybe I've chosen a certain social circle and I can't point fingers at Harvard when I've willingly involved myself in it, but the very availability of such a life is fairly amazing. My first-year photos are of boys in tuxedos, girls in full length dresses and everyone sipping wine. I refuse to believe this is how the average 18-year-old on a college campus behaves. It is fun to dress up. It is fun to sip wine. But once we graduate, the worlds where there are formal dinners, teas and cocktail parties...
...created Mickey Mouse and produced the first full-length animated movie. He invented the theme park and originated the modern multimedia corporation. For better or worse, his innovations have shaped our world and the way we experience it. But the most significant thing Walt Disney made was a good name for himself...