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...shove Gore out from Clinton's shadow. "We have to talk about the future," a Gore aide says. "The Vice President has to define himself, and he can't do it by standing behind the President." Gore made the first move during his announcement tour 2 1/2 weeks ago, when he seemed so enthusiastic about calling Clinton's conduct in the Monica Lewinsky scandal "inexcusable" to one interviewer after another. The President, at dinners with friends, insisted he was not upset by what Gore had said about the Monica matter, only a little sore that he had said...
...almost blew our cover on the first challenge. "What are your interests?" the chirpy tour guide asked, adjusting his hat while walking uphill backwards. I had long ago turned in interests for a concentration, but I managed to mumble something about history and he passed on to the eager high school students...
...Spain, their persecution at the hands of returning ethnic Albanians in Kosovo is simply another chapter in a long history of suffering. Originally from Northern India, the Gypsies ? or Roma people ? were nomadic tribesmen skilled in crafts and music who were scattered westward more than a thousand years ago by successive waves of war and occupation. Passing through the Persian, Byzantine and Ottoman empires, they settled throughout Asia Minor, the Arab world, the Balkans and Europe but maintained common threads of language, culture, music and religious belief throughout their diaspora. But rarely have their host countries made them feel welcome...
...that much 25, 30 years ago, when sexuality was a subject that attracted serious moviemakers and moviegoers. The X-rated Midnight Cowboy won the top Oscar for 1969; Columbia Pictures released the sexy French film Emmanuelle and made a bundle; Marlon Brando poured out his heart and his lust in Last Tango in Paris (back then the erotic accessory was butter, not hair gel, and its application was an adventure, not a joke). You had to be 18 to see these films, but so what? Then the kids took over the box office. Hollywood learned how to eroticize violence...
...success of outreach programs can be evaluated. And in the interim, there will be the sad stories of children caught too late or missed just as the system changed. But there will also be stories like that of Raynaldo Ramos. The nine-year-old immigrated a few years ago from Mexico. No English was spoken in his troubled and poor home, and his limited language skills made for low grades. But last fall, six student tutors from the U.C. Irvine English program came to his fourth-grade classroom. The teacher, Marisol Duarte, saw only subtle changes at first...