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...will be inaugurated--crowned might be a better word--in a sumptuous ceremony. The Order for Services to the Fatherland will be draped around his neck. Our President, a cantata commissioned for the occasion and performed by artists of the Bolshoi Theater, will urge Yeltsin to "bear the light of freedom down the years to the world...
...striking gold in the 100-m backstroke. Brooke Bennett, a 16-year-old Floridian, won the 800-m freestyle, leaving a tearful Janet Evans, the queen of long-distance swimming, in sixth place. The youngest U.S. medalist, California's Amanda Beard, 14--who had her parents bring her teddy bear to the stands--captured two individual silvers in the breaststroke and a relay gold...
...Olympics are appealing to women not because of hokey scenes of swimmer Amanda Beard cuddling a teddy bear but rather because they used to be a pure communal event--of which there are so few--with moments of real sentiment and real heroism instead of the Oprah kind. They are one of the few times when TV celebrates hardworking role models instead of the self-absorbed doofuses on most of prime time and in big-time sports--and one when parents can watch with the kids without cringing at explicit sex scenes. That's more than enough reason to tune...
...beautiful mistress. After their last session, Neruda notes, "I have to admit a surge of vanity: I was proud of what I had wrought." A bit later he hears from his former patient, "You cured me. I'm not a neurotic anymore. It's just that I can't bear the normal misery of life." The message is read to the doctor over the phone by a detective investigating Gene's murder of his wife and subsequent suicide...
...percent of all children by the time they reach the age of 18 will have been on welfare; on welfare for an average of not two or five years, but for an astounding 13. These are children who have not asked to be here, yet children who must bear the burden of their parents' mistakes and misfortunes...