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...says Steve Frye, incident commander for the valley complex, "we have only enough resources to protect homes and property." Given the flames' unpredictable behavior, providing a heat shield is often impossible, and even under good conditions it can require novel, high-risk tactics. "We are going into situations that, absent homes and property, we wouldn't be putting fire fighters into," says Frye. Now and then rugged cabin dwellers tell Frye they don't expect the Federal Government to defend their dwellings, but when the flames reach their door, Frye says, such proud individualists always change their tune...
Curiously, neither new book asks much specifically of the fathers and other men who are so often absent in the daily lives of today's boys. Sommers blames women for the boy crisis while never asking dads to step up to the plate. And Pollack's boys in crisis would surely be helped by strong examples of true manliness...
...force," writes Rice. "That President Clinton was surprised at Milosevic's tenacity is, well, surprising," she adds, in a thinly veiled slap-down of Albright's strategic abilities. "Also, there must be a political game plan that will permit the withdrawal of our forces - something that is still completely absent in Kosovo...
...Louisiana's newlyweds who have opted for the state's two-year-old covenant marriage--an idea considered last year by 19 other states, all of which, except Arizona, voted it down. Louisiana's covenant union differs from the standard one by requiring premarital counseling and, for divorce (absent grievous fault), two years of living apart plus mandated marital counseling. "The desire was to make marriage more committed," says Louisiana State University law professor Katherine Spaht, who wrote the legislation...
...Absent, of course, a compelling reason to worry. There are two fears here: one that Greenspan's march of rate hikes will rupture corporate earnings, the other that this economy will bounce back from apparent lulls, like in 1998 and 1999, to force a more dramatic tightening on credit in August and possibly even beyond. As Greenspan's soft landing glides on - so far, so good - investors and the Fed chairman alike will be scouring the economic skies for signs. And so the Fed guessing game begins all over again...