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...bravo! Bravissimo! For last week the man of steel celebrated the grand milestone of his 50th birthday. Technically, it was not exactly the occasion of his birth, for April 1938 was when he made his debut on the cover of the first issue (dated June) of Action Comics. If he was then about 25, as he looked, he would actually now be 75, his superbody weak and weary, his X-ray vision dimmed. But since he still looks about 25, he can be said to be timeless, immortal. And although nobody is sure exactly how old he is, there...
...perhaps it should not be surprising that the latest of Doris Lessing's more than 30 books tells of the birth of a monster. Throughout her long, distinguished career, Lessing has specialized in bucking currents. Her early fiction carried a strong, if artfully submerged, feminist message. Later, when the women's movement gathered force, she did not join the parade but rather devoted her energy to a cycle of five science-fiction novels. She criticized the West when its power seemed paramount. When the enemies of democracy grew threatening, she changed her emphasis; in The Good Terrorist (1985) she showed...
...sons and three other daughters, it was the culmination of lifetimes spent on skates, first in Cornwall, N.Y., where Bonnie was born, then in Champaign, Ill., where the family moved when the future Olympic champion was two. The story is often told that Charlie Blair received word of the birth of "yet another skater" over the public address system at the local rink. Bonnie the tot first ventured onto the ice with her shoes inside the smallest pair of figure skates her mother could find. "Skating was always part of our lives, and of course it became part of Bonnie...
Does this mystical "networking" really exist? Maybe it did fifty years ago, when a good majority of the undergraduates came from exclusive prep schools and already knew most of the people in their class. Then, elitism was pervasive in career and social advancement, from birth to silver spoons to death. I doubt Harvard could be characterized as perpetuating such a discriminatory system today...
...Border State moderate with Southern appeal. "Gephardt has an anti-foreign, anti- Establishment pitch -- a send-'em-a-message message," says Political Consultant Carter Eskew, a friend of Gore's. "That and the populism of resentment are likely to do well in a part of the country that gave birth to Huey Long and George Wallace...