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...killed so far this year: if you want a vacation in Miami, train for it. Before departing in their rental car from the airport last Tuesday, they mapped out their route in advance. They kept to the main road. They stored their valuables out of sight, drove at a brisk pace, and Kathrin even spent the ride reading from a safety brochure (distributed in seven languages by Alamo Rent...
...Asians are coming! The Asians have landed! Suddenly China is chic. So are the more familiar Asian totems of American envy and remorse, Japan and Vietnam. The U.S. may dominate pop culture around the world, but at home there is a brisk new breeze -- a wind from the East. In films, fiction and fashion, from Madonna's video to Fendi's new perfume (Asja), the future looms in the rising sun. Go, for a start, to the movies. Or stay away, as Asian-American activists urged audiences to do when Rising Sun hit the screens. The Sean Connery thriller, which...
Whenever Deedee Corradini, the brisk, hard-working mayor of Salt Lake City, goes to a national mayors' conference, as she did in New York City in June and in San Francisco in July, hers is the rare grin among very long faces. That is because, as she says, "we are the envy of the others. We have our problems and challenges, but nothing like the rest of the cities. Look at some of the others. Look at L.A. Or San Francisco. I don't know how you can begin to solve those problems, whereas we can solve ours. Our problems...
...this brisk fall day Yale was in town, bringing with it a top-20 ranking. The Bulldogs had owned this game while the Crimson was mired down in mediocrity during the Getman era. Harvard hadn't won since...
...film festivals, a hit in Britain, and, once it opens in the U.S. next week, a bracing corrective to the cinema's annual testosterone overdose. Freely and fondly adapting Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, English filmmaker Sally Potter brings to life a buoyant fantasy world. She imparts a brisk, lush post-modernism to a fable that scans four centuries. But Potter's real triumph is in her pert dressing of an immodest proposal. To be fully human, Orlando says, is to go civilization one better: to be man, then woman, then a blend of the best of both genders...