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...over his head, faded into near invisibility as Bush dominated the headlines with his forceful leadership in Panama and the Persian Gulf. Watching the frenetic President jog and swim, angle for bonefish and gun his speedboat, few thought of him as an ordinary mortal nearing his 67th birthday...
Just what terms the Kurds might exact from Baghdad were unclear last week. Such is the cultist world Saddam has created that the talks were suspended until this week so that he could publicly celebrate his 54th birthday. According to British diplomats, though, the deal includes more Cabinet seats for Kurds in a reorganized government, safe passage for returning refugees, the adoption of democracy in Iraq and autonomy for the Kurds within their native area. Whether the major oil-producing center of Kirkuk should be included in the autonomous zone is a divisive issue, as it has been in past...
...also, the movie says, an adoring daughter, honoring her father with a fond, wet rendition of Happy Birthday. But in the family scenes, among many others, one gets the sense of an actress playing, so coolly, with a moviegoer's expectations. Watch the star at the grave of her mother, who died when Madonna was five. Dolled up in modified Marilyn, she kneels and kisses the tombstone. Then she says she wants to be buried next to her mother and stretches out, comfy, on the ground. What's going on here? Is this a cemetery or a campsite? Spontaneous emotion...
...start of every year Kennedy goes on a liquid diet to shed excess pounds. Aside from consomme and diet sodas, his meals consist of diet shakes. During the six-to-seven-week period, which usually ends on his birthday, Feb. 22, after a loss of 30 or 40 lbs., he avoids alcohol...
There was good news and bad news in the infant-mortality statistics released last week by the Department of Health and Human Services. The number of babies who died before their first birthday fell from 9.7 per 1,000 in 1989 to 9.1 per 1,000 last year, the largest annual drop since 1981. The decline in infant mortality was 6%, in contrast to an average 2.5% annual decline in the 1980s. But the U.S. still trails 19 other nations, including some, like Singapore and Spain, that are less affluent. More troubling still, the death rate for black infants...