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...bare-bones plot of Strip Tease revolves around FBI secretary turned exotic dancer Erin Grant, who is working at the Eager Beaver to pay her legal fees to win back custody of her daughter. Erin's ex-husband Darrell is a lowlife so inept that he boosts wheelchairs, not cars, for a living. Congressman Dilbeck (the poor man's Wilbur Mills) becomes as obsessed with Erin as the sugar lobby is with keeping this drunken buffoon of a subcommittee chairman in office. Throw in a few dead bodies, and Hiaasen's morality play is off and running like a frisky...
...nine months -- learning the biggest job in the world, coping with a hostile Congress and a hostile press, dealing with the suicide of a close friend and the loss of his father-in-law. Before coming to the Vineyard, the Clintons went to visit Jim and Diane Blair at Beaver Lake, close to their roots in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where they got married, taught at the university and had their first home. It was 14 years ago on another visit to the Blairs' that Hillary found out she was finally pregnant. It was the day after she went water skiing...
...most valuable commodity of McCaw Cellular is Craig McCaw. Soft- spoken and unassuming, McCaw is a demanding chief executive who drives a 10-year-old car and wears a $30 plastic digital watch. A licensed pilot, he relaxes by flying his De Havilland-Beaver seaplane to remote lakes in the Pacific Northwest. The McCaw family, including Craig and his brothers, owned 20% of their company's stock. When the AT&T purchase is completed, their holdings will be worth a combined $2.8 billion, making the McCaws AT&T's largest independent shareholders. Craig, who will become an AT&T board...
...know that a solid majority of Americans have a weight problem (66% in a recent Harris poll) and that the temptations to settle into a permanent slouch will only grow stronger. The electronic superhighway is on the way, with 500 channels of interactive broadcasting. Imagine this Leave It to Beaver update, circa 1997: after Wally and the Beaver rip through a few games of Return of Sonic the Hedgehog, after June finishes her home shopping and after Ward checks the closing stock quotes, they all settle down for the evening with a big bag of Fritos Lite and order...
Khalilah holds higher expectations of her education. She has applied to Beaver Country Day School, a private high school in Chestnut Hill. "I want to go so I can push myself to stand up to the work," she says. She wants to be on the "right path," the path to track championships and college...