CHAPTER I
The restaurant of the Grand Hotel in Rome was filling
up. People were dining rather late—it
was the end of May and the entertainments were lessening,
so they could dawdle ov...
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British author Elinor Glyn (1864-1943) wrote a number of novels, many featuring strong female characters in sexually charged situations. The most scandalous was Three Weeks, which nearly ended Glyn's ...
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Elinor Glyn, glamorous socialite, incessant traveler, and romantic novelist, reached the peak of her celebrity in the autumn of 1907, when she published Three Weeks. Soon a naughty rhyme was circulati...
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that Brazil will budget about $540 million over eight years to complete its nuclear program, including uranium enrichment and possibly building a nuclear-po...
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Sarajevo (dpa) - The jury of the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival
(SFF), chaired by the Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, awarded Turkish
movie A Man's Fear of God by Ozer Kiziltan the ...
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An Italian senator chained himself to a column near the gates of the Uffizi museum Monday to protest the loan of Leonardo da Vinci's "Annunciation" for a show at Japan's National Museum in Tokyo.Th...
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An Italian senator chained himself to a column near the gates of the Uffizi museum Monday to protest the loan of Leonardo da Vinci's "Annunciation" for a show at Japan's National Museum in Tokyo.Th...
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The newly installed president of Temple University, citing the need for students to become global citizens, has pledged to pay their passport fees.Speaking in her investiture ceremony March 22, Tem...
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Dusseldorf (dpa) - Japanese corporations doing business in Europe
are conscious that sites in eastern Europe offer lower operating
costs than Germany, where many are current...
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A European Union high court upheld several Anheuser-Busch trademarks and dismissed a challenge from Czech brewing rival Budvar on Tuesday, the latest ruling in a century of disputes relating to the...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
CRIME IN AKIHABARA IS NO GAME (The Japan Times, an
English-language daily)
A report released earlier this month by the Metropolitan P...
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To the Editor: Contrary to The Observer’s report in “Some See Nepotism in Commentary’s New Editor Choice” [Oct. 29], the decision to name John Podhoretz as CommentaryR...
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The Point of View
Elinor Glyn
Elinor Glyn
Brazil: $540M for nuclear program
