7 SEPTEMBER 1996, page 47

Low Life

Signs of decline Jeffrey Bernard T he decline in the quality of life, some- thing that now depresses me even more than my own personal problems, is every- where and constant......

High Life A Sobering

thought Taki Gstaad Bob Tyrrell, the editor of the American Spectator — no relation — has cost me a six-figure sum. Conrad Black, our benevo- lent proprietor, ditto. Life being......