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...people who bought Vivendi Universal stock at ?140. Go ahead and laugh, I'm used to it. Today I feel odd - as if I were the only fully dressed person in a nudist camp. Thank you, Jean-Marie, for this moment of solitude. I am a kind of universal idiot; the boob who believed it. Believed in what? That I was going to become rich, powerful, partake in the absolute quest of human happiness - one attainable with the laws of the triumphant market. Or better yet, that I'd become a little bit like Jean-Marie Messier myself...
...while the crunchy one releases its flavor beneath the teeth," he says, likening the feel to Häagen-Dazs, "the first to make ice cream with little crunchy bits in it." Klein, whose career has been the most unconventional of this year's chefs, seems to be the odd man out. His whole career has been spent at L'Arnsbourg, the Alsatian inn started by his grandmother. For 19 years after finishing catering school, he didn't even cook, working instead as maître d'hôtel. He began helping in the kitchen in 1988, after...
...this exurban behemoth (larger than the city of Denver itself, it covers 53 sq. mi.), with its tentlike spires and cavernous, convention-hall interior, has its user-unfriendly quirks. Passengers who are dropped off at the airport by cab or rental-car van find themselves, for some odd reason, at the exit. To reach the ticket counter, they have to lug their bags up an escalator. The three gate concourses are connected by a train system that is fast and convenient-except when it's not working (which lately has not been very often and usually for only short periods...
There was a mirror on the shelf, and a razor and shaving cream. I thought that was odd. Wouldn't he do that at home? But I guess I figured that a man who had a perfectly good split-level and then built an underground room only half a mile away had to be kind of loo-loo. My father had a nice way of describing people like him: "The man's a character, that...
...This is all mighty odd. Republicans spent eight years criticizing the Clinton Administration for neocolonial nation building in such places as Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti. This, we were told, was a diversion from America's core missions: national defense and the establishment of a global security system based on relations with other great powers. Last week, however, a senior White House official blithely said, "We're for nation building," as long as American troops aren't used to do it. (Which begs the question: Who will be used...