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...strategists in Washington today are those who are blowing with the wind. Nowadays, there is no serious talk of liberal values versus conservative values. Suddenly, there is a whole new breed of politician being born inside the beltway which is neither liberal nor conservative--it is the platypus-like centrist...
...Pascagoula shipyard worker, Lott, 54, has served as his party's whip, or top vote counter, for 10 of the past 15 years, first in the House and then in the Senate. His victory last week marked the triumph in the usually sober Senate of the breed of young, brash and very conservative Republican that took over the House when Newt Gingrich swept the G.O.P. to power in 1994. Lott is a supply-side tax cutter and a fervent deregulator, though his enthusiasm for deficit reduction withers when it comes to Pentagon pork, which he adroitly delivers to his home...
...landscape into a 20th century skyline: an eruption of "modern flowers with veins of steel, bursting out of bedrock." It does not take a Viennese mind doctor to find eroticism in such charged imagery. Building cities is a procreative business, and Dressler is an evocative example of a breed driven to reproduce itself in concrete. A decision to marry a withdrawn woman of no discernible personality is a strong indication of his diverted passions...
...well as Lombard Institutional Brokerage www.lombard.com and discount pioneer Charles Schwab www.schwab.com) is part of the next wave of brokerages that are shaking up the Wall Street establishment by trading stocks and bonds in cyberspace. Unlike traditional securities firms that operate out of storefronts and office buildings, this new breed connects to its customers mostly through...
...trout fillets from Denmark--and has since turned up in 20 other states. Not all trout are susceptible. Brown trout show signs of infection but seem to be weathering it, and fishing for browns is still good in most streams. For some reason the rainbows of the Rockies, which breed in cold mountain water and create the wild-trout populations so valued by anglers, are especially vulnerable...