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...what to do and where to go." Rollins will run the day- to-day campaign while Jordan concentrates on strategy and themes. Demonstrating what are increasingly formidable political skills, Perot sprang the announcement the day after the California primary, thereby eclipsing what should have been Bill Clinton's afterglow of triumph. "I think one of the challenges for Ed and myself," said Jordan, "is not to try to fix something that's not broken...
...ratings and gained 10 times that many gray hairs. But he's got his feet up on the desk in an Oval Office flooded with December sunshine, and for 30 minutes he is remembering when he played the ultimate chess game -- Desert Storm -- and won brilliantly. The afterglow of that triumph has faded now, but not his granite conviction that what he did was right. Back a year, the tension was real and he talked more at night with Barbara and hugged his grandchildren with more feeling as he pondered two of his huge problems: Saddam Hussein...
...afterglow of the allied victory in the gulf war last spring, the U.S. economy seemed ready to shake off its malaise. Consumer confidence rose sharply, and sales of cars and homes began to shift into high gear. But in the clear light of autumn, that hopeful moment seems long gone. Despite assertions from Washington and most economists that the recession ended last May, the recovery may be the weakest in postwar history, and many sectors could even be sliding backward. "The situation is far worse than the government would like us to believe, and things are going to remain this...
Emblems, like flags, are powerful in their symbolism. In the afterglow of Desert Storm, yellow ribbons and flags are everywhere. But flags can sometimes inadvertently evoke hurtful images. I still remember how in 1976, my parents expressed fears about coming to my Harvard commencement because of the images they had seen in home papers of a Black man being assaulted by three white youths on the steps of Boston City Hall with an American flag. My father, who was injured in Korea while serving for that flag, ultimately chose not to come...
...hard, even pumping iron. And they are doing it not just to look attractive but also to gain strength and a sense of self-sufficiency. They have discovered the secret pleasures long enjoyed by athletic men: the heady, sweaty, solitary joy of hard physical exercise and the rosy, relaxed afterglow that follows it. "Sports and exercise make you feel better," says Gail Weldon, who runs the Women's Traac Health Club in Los Angeles. "Women want to be more in control of their bodies...