European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ibert sellersfiction1 cold fire to Dean r. Koontz last week 3, weeks on list. 2 a 2 the secret Pilgrim by John be Carre last week 1 weeks on list 4. 3 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Ariel last week 2 weeks on list 16 a. A. 4 the fourth k by Mario Puzo last week -13 weeks on a list 4 a. A a a. A. A. Quot 5 Battleground by w e b. Griffin last week 9 weeks on list 2 a a 6 vital signs by Robin Cook last week 10, weeks on list 3 by7 dazzle by Judith Krantz last week 4 weeks on list 10 8 Circle of friends by Maeve Buchy last week 14 a weeks on list 2. ,. A a. A. 9 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton last week 7 weeks on list 10. A. A a a a. A a a. 10 the witching hour by Anne Rice last week 5 weeks a on list 13 a a Aanon-fiction1 Iron John by Robert Bly last week 1 weeks on list 11 2 the prize by Daniel Yergin last week 2 weeks on list 1. 3 a life on the Road by Charles Kurall last week 3 weeks on list 12 \ the civil War by Geoffrey c. Ward with Ric Burns and Quot Kert Burns last week 2 weeks on list 17. 5 to knows to by to Jackson and Dick Schaap last a a. Week 4 weeks on list 12. 6 the new russians by Hedrick Smith last week 5 weeks on list 37 Millie s Book As dictated to Barbara Bush last week 7 weeks on list 19 a _ _ _ 8 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen last week 6 weeks on list 26 a a a Quot 9 the spiritual life of children by Robert Coles last week 8. Weeks on list 3. A10 Power shift by Alvin Toffler last week 10 weeks on list 12 paperback fiction 1 dances with wolves by Michael Blake weeks on list .8. 2 the Conquest by Jude Deveraux weeks on list 2 3 a ruling passion by Judith Michael first week on list 4 harmful intent by Robin Cook weeks on list 2 5 Caribbean by James a. Michener first week on list6 devices and desires by . James first week on list. 7 talking god by Tony Hillerman weeks on list 6 Quot 8 mystery by Peter Straub weeks on list 4 9 misery by Stephen King weeks on list 24 10 the Bonfire of the vanities by Tom Wolfe weeks on list 37 non fiction 1 not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoodi with William Hoffer weeks on list 3 a _ 2 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l. Friedman weeks on list 25. 3 Saddam Hussein and the crisis in the Gulf by Judith Miller and Laurie Mylroie first week on list 4 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten a by Robert Fulghum weeks on use b3 5 the rape of Kuwait by Jean p. Sasson first week on list a a 5 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on a a a a Quot list. 379 a. A. A 7 deep cover by Michael Levine first week of list -8 liars poker by Michael Lewis weeks on list -19 9 the Road from Coo rain by Jill Ker Conway weeks on list 21 10 the cuckoos egg by Cliff Stoll weeks on list 10 paperback miscellaneous1 the world almanac and Book of facts 1991 weeks on list 7 a. A 2 the to Factor Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle. Weeks on list 27 a. A a3 All i need to know i Learned from my cat by Suzy Pecker weeks on list 10 a 4 codependent no More by Melody Beattie weeks on a list 118 5 the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen r. Covey weeks on list 7. Compiled by the now York times stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel a. 2 four past Midnight by Stephen King 3 the witching hour by Anne Rice 4 the secret Pilgrim by John be carr6 a 5 lady Boss by Jackie Collins a. 6 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. 7 the fourth k by Mario Puzo _8 Longshot by Dick Francis _ memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon 10 the general in his labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Non fiction a 1 to knows to by to Jackson and Dick Schaap. A 2 songs of the doomed by Hunter s. Thompson _ 3 Iron John by Robert Bly v 4 the cat and the curmudgeon by Cleveland Amory. 5 Power shift by Alvin Toffler o a life in the read by Charles Kudratt 7 get to the heart by Barbara Mandrell with George _ Vecsey a. 8 Millie Srb ook As dictated to Barbara Bush r9 the great Waldo search by Martin Handford 10 by Way of deception by Victor Ostrovsky a notorious errors must come to a halt James j. Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate the Winter session of the court of irks peeves and Crotchet resumes with this coins lint from James b. Bush or. Of Willis Van a who asks the court to narrow the meaning of  he cites the description of a philanthropist who w As a notorious for his  the motion to narrow is granted. Websters 111 equivocate the adjective Quot notorious May involve something reprehensible or scandalous but it May mean nothing More than a the condition of being an object of wide  the random House unabridged does not pussyfoot around to be notorious is. To be a widely and unfavourably  As syn onyans for notoriety random House offers a will repute infamy and  let us Reserve a notorious for those whose notoriety bears a taint. From mrs. William 11 Arthur of Orchard Park n.y., comes a familiar protest. She rues a the almost constant misuse of mess to the  of  a she cites a less ears have. Been sold in 1990 than in 19r9.�?� she might also have cited the supermarket irritation of an cd press line for a a 10 items or  protest affirmed. A a v. A a the general Rule on a a less and a fewer Quot is not Complex. Use a a fewer for things that can be counted. Use a a less for things that can be Mca sure. Fewer cars have been sold less Snow has fallen. Note however that the general Rule is not an absolute Rule. From Home to Church is a less than four  it has been a mess than six months since aunt Marne  John f. Beck of Beaver Falls pa., appeals to the court to censure those who speak of a store containing �?o40, xxx Square feet of  / Point is that a Square feet is a measure of two dimensional area Quot and a a space is a three i mansion no measure Contr Only designated in cubic feet. The court will have to think about this one. The petitioners argument sounds plausible but in common usage a a space can be two dimensional a leave space on the Page for a  on reflection the court dismisses the Appeal but the court suggests that we write a a floor space when floor space is intended Jean Anderson of Portland ore., asks the court for a ruling on a a data and  the ruling is easy a data Quot is plural. Thus data Are data have data were. Enforcing the rules trickier for  authorities will Tell you that a a data is widely accepted in the singular. A for a Datum a when the word is not being a used in the Art of surveying it is a $4 substitute for the 10-cent  next Case Tom Halstead of Middlefield Ohio asks the  i s assistance m making sense out of the nonsense of a consumer problems often fall Between the  if the stale metaphor is to be used at All let us write of problems that fall than Alt the cracks. Something that Falls Between the cracks is not Likely to fall very far. A a on that thoughtful note the court stands adjourned. Is february 3, 1991 a sunday c Pagi