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...that the Clintons were complete hermits. What trip to Massachusetts would be complete without a Kennedy visitation? They chummed around on TED KENNEDY's yacht with the Senator, his wife Victoria Reggie, niece CAROLINE KENNEDY SCHLOSSBERG and assorted others from the famous clan. Bill also had time to bestow a presidential pat--and instant celebrity--on BUDDY, a local pooch. "Is this a great dog or what?" Clinton asked, even though dogs still don't have the vote...
...Nino would also bestow a patchwork of benefits. Off Chile, fishermen could look forward to catching anchovies normally found much farther north. Peruvians have been enjoying balmy beaches in the middle of their winter. And residents of the U.S. could look forward to fewer Atlantic Ocean hurricanes, an earlier spring in the Northeast and a blessed lull in tornadoes throughout the Midwest. All things considered, says Florida State University oceanographer James O'Brien, Americans should think of El Nino as a "good dude...
...whenever Newt needed someone to defend him on television, Paxon was willing to aim his happy, preppy face toward the camera. Last Tuesday, as Gingrich touted G.O.P. tax cuts under a sweltering sun, Paxon even gazed at him with the kind of adoring smile Nancy Reagan used to bestow on her husband...
...draw a distinction between wrongheaded cults and acceptable mainstream faiths: "The crucial safety break in most theologies is that the believer himself cannot choose the moment of ascension. Only the central deity can do that." America may retain a Judeo-Christian tradition, but the claim that only religions who bestow ultimate power on a "central deity" are legitimate reveals no respect for faiths that have no such deity, or that empower people to seize control of their existence on earth...
...four more hot-selling Easy Rawlins mysteries, a Denzel Washington movie based on Devil, and two visits to the White House later, Mosley, 45, finds himself in the enviable position of being able to bestow his work on whichever publisher he chooses. And when he decided to publish the once neglected Gone Fishin', he selected Black Classic Press, a small house in Baltimore, Maryland, that specializes in reprinting historical works by black authors. This is a significant move for two reasons. For starters it may show, as Mosley says, that "a black writer can bring his or her work...