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...economy is already perking along. After more than four years of expansion, it is growing at a sustainable rate of around 2.5%; inflation remains under control, and unemployment is a moderate 5.6%. Allen Sinai, chief economist for Lehman Brothers Global Economics, predicted "at least another two or three years of expansion and probably the best U.S. business cycle ever." Moreover, he added, the healthy economy will be "absolutely an A-plus" for Clinton in next year's election...
...just must be fabulous to be JULIA ROBERTS: to make $12 million for some movies and work with Woody Allen on others; to be a goodwill ambassador to Haiti and have a world problem get attention because she brings it up; and, best of all, to be hounded worldwide by photographers. Last week the news broke that Roberts had found love with a Venetian water-limo driver--an Italian tabloid even ran a blurry photo, possibly of the two kissing. "It's not true," says Roberts' spokesperson. "I didn't ask her if she kissed him, but she kisses everyone...
Lawson K. Allen '98, a member of the Radcliffe Crew, said the pleasant weather makes practice more enjoyable...
...Americans wondered what "national interest" they had in a war that many thought we should let the Europeans take care of themselves, William Allen White wrote, "Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America." These words are now inscribed on the wall of a corridor in the U.S. Capitol. Yet, for too much of two administrations, the U.S. has stood by as its defenders were slaughtered in the streets of Sarajevo. We puttered while our allies dithered, dawdled and delayed their way to a "consensus" on whether to support the firefighters or the fire. We must never forget...
...There's something icky in Woody Allen's compulsion to write scripts about fifty-something guys ready to dump their wives for nubile waifs the approximate age of Soon-Yi Farrow Previn," notes critic Richard Corliss. This was the story of 1992's "Husbands and Wives," and it returns in this tale of a sportswriter with a pretty, peckish wife and a five-year-old adopted son. Allen's take on marriage is bleak, clueless; he sees it as a prison for two, where the condemned finally rise to a level of reciprocal pity. But in spite of all this...