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I REALLY CAN'T SAY when I decided what the good life might be, and I certainly never set out in pursuit of it. But as far back as I can […]

WORLD WAR III? NOT REALLY. WORLD War I was essentially a struggle for Western Europe, fought primarily by massed infantry formations, in France and northern Italy and at Gallipoli on […]

Quintessentially English, the country-house hotel Gravetye Manor and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera are a lovely pair--and two of the best reasons to spend a weekend on the green Downs of […]

Budapest, Hungary is a mixture of the old and the new, of foreign and inherently Hungarian. Its architecture is of Baroque and Gothic origins, and its cuisine a combination of the peasant and French styles. The city boasts of great museums, grand hotels, fine bistros and fatalistic people.

Post-war Berlin, Germany has a number of interesting hotels, museums, restaurants and opera houses. Eastern European dishes are served in restaurants such as Cafe Oren, Schell and Florian. Music lovers can go to opera houses such as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney discusses the future of the Soviet nuclear arsenal and US help in any disarmament plans. The possibility of rogue Third World nations illegally buying nuclear weapons or employing laid-off nuclear scientists are analyzed.

With its streets, monuments and image cleaned up, Italy's largest is Come for the ancient ruins, the stark landscapes, the lusty food and the inescapable passion of its people. MARY […]

FOR LOVERS OF FOOD, WINE AND THE GOOD LIFE THAT COMES WITH THEM, THE NAPA VALLEY IS A PARADISE WITHOUT PEER. The first time I spent a weekend in the […]

Forty-four people died in the Attica 'riot', most of them in the storming of the prison ordered by the New York State governor, Nelson Rockefeller. The prisoners had taken hostages [...]

To say that food matters in France is to utter a common-place, like saying that football matters in Brazil, or that money matters on Wall Street. For the French--men and […]

BITTER VICTORY By Robert Shaplen. 309 pp. New York: Harper & Row. $16.95. ROBERT SHAPLEN came to Indochina sooner than most of us, and he has stayed with it longer [...]

The decorating firm of Colefax and Fowler Designs Ltd. is the king of the English Look, and its showrooms on London's tony Brook Street are usually almost as sedate as [...]

Opinion. Focuses on the president of the United States, Bill Clinton. Details on where President Clinton rank in the pantheon of Presidents; Problems facing the United States in the 1990s; Examination of these problems.

This article reflects on cuisine in different areas of the world. The author, an associate editor of the New York Times, discusses his experiences traveling the world as a writer and the different types of food he has sampled over the years. The article also presents a recipe for a Vietnamese beef dish called Pho Bo, adapted from the book "Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table," by Mai Pham.