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...compelling as the U.S. market chugs ever higher. The average blue-chip stock has risen a stunning 29% annually in the past two years, nearly triple the historical 10.5% benchmark, making the U.S. the best-performing major market on the globe in that period. The Dow Jones industrial average blew past the 6300 marker last week, more than double its level less than five years ago. America is on a roll, and with Wall Street euphoric over the election results, it seems nothing can go wrong. U.S.A. all the way! Besides, giant U.S. companies such as Coca-Cola, Gillette...
...proceeded to give the President pointers on how to improve at his favorite pastime. Norman has provided lessons for Clinton off the golf course as well. During the presidential campaign, Clinton repeatedly invoked Norman's name as a lesson against over confidence, reminding his staff that the Shark blew a six-stroke final-round lead last April to lose the Masters...
...Penn set up a jury-rigged workspace in a walk-in closet in Sosnik's West Wing basement office. This triggered Morris' paranoia, and when Penn had a one-on-one meeting with Clinton in the Oval Office a few days before the State of the Union, Morris blew a gasket. He summoned Penn and Schoen to his house in Connecticut and told Penn that Clinton was his client, the White House his show. Penn could submit or get out. Morris laid down a new law: Penn could see anyone in the White House except the President. (Later, Morris came...
...cost $1 billion--more than half the sticker price of a space shuttle. The problem is that even expensive ships can go south on you, which is just what happened in 1993, when the Mars Observer--a spacecraft that was NASA's only attempted Mars mission since 1976--apparently blew an aneurysm in a fuel line and spiraled off into space. Goldin decided that such Cadillac probes should be replaced with more-modest ones: stripped-down ships made of components already on the shelf. When skeptical NASA engineers began assembling these workbench spacecraft, they found them surprisingly elegant...
ELAINE SHANNON, who has been covering the FBI and the Department of Justice for TIME since 1987, was furiously reporting the TWA Flight 800 crash story last July when a pipe bomb blew up in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park in the middle of the Summer Games. As suspicion fell on Richard Jewell, the security guard who had at first been considered a hero for spotting the bomb, Shannon enjoyed an insider's view of a criminal investigation that ended up going wrong in a painfully public way. "The FBI is a remarkable institution that often gets...