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...Mont-Tremblant in Quebec are offering the best deals. A five-night, four-day stay at a Whistler hotel (including lift tickets) costs about $400, while a trip to Vail or Aspen goes for $500 to $700. No wonder visitors to Colorado's slopes, which until recently were beset by weak snowfall, are down 11% this year. That means, of course, that the state's a bit eager for business. So if you prefer to ski there, be sure to haggle and ask about special discounts...
...title, a sly gibe at John Updike, Rabbit at Rest and all the other Rabbits, is worth a smile. Here, McMurtry's Duane Moore, 62, rich, beset by family and bored to a frazzle, flummoxes his Texas town by ditching his pickup truck and walking everywhere. The book is within cat-kicking distance of funny. Real guys don't walk, not in Thalia, Texas. The trouble is that Duane, wambling hero of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, is actually becalmed. He has lost the happy soul's gift of reality avoidance. So too with McMurtry, usually an inspired melodramatist...
Together with those freedom- and justice-loving citizens of the world, we do at the same time, however, note that at the end of this century--a century which humanity entered with such high hopes for progress--the world is still beset by great disparities between the rich and poor, both within countries and between different parts of the world...
Travel '98, beset by fiery cruise ships and bouncing aircraft, led us to ask these intrepid globe trotters about their narrowest escapes from danger...
...remiss if I were to fail to mention one last symbol of power that I encounter daily on Park Avenue. Each day, as I wade through piles of second class mail, I am beset with magazines from Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The best and brightest of the past few generations are living well and are inundated with mail from their alma maters. Sadly, too many of the Harvard alumni show some sort of interest in me only when they learn that I go to their alma mater. Only then do I cease to be an automaton, only then do they...