Simon & Schuster, $23. HERE'S a slim little history of the beauty business that just happens to dovetail nicely with Susan J. Matt's history of envy.
To predict that "the odds of a rational debate" on Internet policies are "slim" ignores history.
The greatest director in the (slim, granted) history of Finnish cinema hunches in his seat; a large, pasty man in his mid-40s with the sagging demeanour of a weary shrug made flesh.
Mr. Slim has a history of buying depressed assets he can later sell at a profit, and several analysts familiar with his investments say they see the purchase of the Times Company stock in that vein.
In this slim but evocative history, he journeys the length of the Appia (35o miles) by foot and by car, from Rome to Brindisi in the heel of Italy, and on the way tells the remarkable story of Europe's first great road.
Stanford vs. Baylor Baylor has the slimmest Final Four history in this quartet of giants, its three Final Four appearances are dwarfed by Notre Dame's 5, Stanford's 11 and Connecticut's 13.
Connecticut-based Hooker – a tall, slim hippy with a history of substance abuse – was much given to wearing the sort of austere robe he sports on the sleeve, a fairly outré move even then.
Nellie, whose character has only a slim foundation in actual history, has a tantalizing and lingering love affair with Wilson Mizner Howard McGillinn), and she's really the only "girl" in the show.
Stephen Hawking, who told a Caltech audience in 1998 that he would not answer "God questions," has sold more than 10 million copies of his slim book on cosmic history to readers characterized by an envious editor of Skeptic magazine as deferential devotees of a religion-substitute.
Analysts point out that the financial crisis has put pressure on big U.S. financial conglomerates like Citigroup, one of the biggest acquirers in recent history, to slim down rather than bulk up.
