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...year ago last October an undergraduate wag decided he would ask the President if the bells could be named for him. Mr. Roosevelt wrote a warm acceptance to Professor Coolidge, saying lie was "delighted and greatly honored." Mr. Coolidge, to whom the idea had apparently never occurred, found that the terms of the gift made this solution impossible, and was forced to write his former pupil that he had been the victim of a prank
...actuarial calculations, and complain that the annually reported standard is short-sighted; after all, should equity markets grow for a sustained period, the current shortfalls could be erased. In the Netherlands, corporate and industry occupational pension schemes have lost about 44% on their equity investments. But, says Ophélie Mortier, a funds expert with Pragma consulting in Brussels, the strategy of Dutch funds "is to outlast the slump, then take advantage of what they believe will be significant growth." Some U.K. funds are also sticking to higher-risk shares, rather than moving to lower-risk bonds (and risking being...
...models wearing them bounced and buckled down the runway at Clark's fashion show in the Royal Court. But never mind. The It-girls of the day - Bianca Jagger, Marisa Berenson - loved them despite the wobble. If the exhibition lacks anything, it's the stories like this one that lie behind the shoes. While he was impressing the women of West London with his designs, Blahnik went to East London and Northampton to study shoemaking from traditional craftsmen. (The wobble went away.) Today, Blahnik still does every step of the process himself - he sketches the designs, carves the lasts, chooses...
...camp fire girl youth. The 26-year-old speaks plaintively about the stiff breeze long ago that blew away her one shot as the camp-fire lighter. She doesn't light my fire, either. Getting nowhere (fast, of course), I do what every self-disrespecting male would do. I lie. I call myself a rich lawyer and sit down with "Sugarmuffin," the prettiest of my seven dates. Sadly, her own job as a legal secretary throws up too many unanswerable questions about mine. Saved by the bell, I shuffle off and become a postman for a final three minutes with...
...Sharon denying his own base in order to draw a party of reluctant doves who differ sharply with his policies into a national unity government? The answer may lie in the fact that the unspoken coalition-partner of any Israeli government is the President of the United States - the ally whose requests Israel cannot afford to ignore and whose red lines it cannot afford to cross. Sharon, of course, has no worries on that front - at least for now. He has achieved a unity of purpose with the Bush administration that few had thought possible when he was first elected...