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Ferraro wants desperately to get on with the campaign. Said she at her press conference: "I hope by Sunday, which is my [49th] birthday, we're going to start a new year." But the troubles of the past two weeks may not simply fade away. The House ethics committee could take up the question of her disclosure exemption on Sept. 12 at its final meeting of this congressional session. An inquiry is unlikely, however, since Ferraro is leaving Congress at the end of this term. There is also the Federal Election Commission, which has begun a review...
People's Daily last week celebrated the 80th birthday of Deng Xiaoping, China's top leader, not with an official announcement but with one of the paper's most unusual articles in recent memory. The subject: Deng's ordeal as a political outcast during the decade of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. The author: "Mao Mao," the childhood nickname of one of Deng's three daughters. According to her account, three years after Deng was ousted from Deng Xiaoping Mao's inner circle in 1966 for being too critical of economic policies...
...rented a suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for a low-key presentation to a few hundred industry specialists and the press. Since then, nearly 1 million PCs have been sold, and the machine has become the recognized industry standard. So when the computer's third birthday came around last week, IBM took over the 1,620-room Loews Anatole Hotel in Dallas and invited 2,400 dealers, software publishers and industry consultants to show off its new personal computer...
...evocative (if dramatically a bit clumsy) explorations of Southern familial passions. Her husband Brick has taken to the bottle and thrown her out of bed in despondency over the death of his best friend and the specter of his own homosexuality. Their marital crisis reaches a boil at the birthday party...
...costumes at Sears. By the age of 16 they were going through the store and pointing to things that they would some day have in their home. Married five years ago at 18rthey outfitted their new two-bedroom house at Sears. Lisa got a Kenmore washer and dryer as birthday and Christmas presents. The couple also bought a blender, a mixer, a coffeemaker, a toaster, an iron, a shower curtain and living-room curtains from Sears. When they needed to fence in their yard, they got a Sears fence. Now the Fords are planning a family, and they are starting...