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...barn," the fictional Fred tells voters. "I'd just like to spend a little time in the House." With no platform and little money, the sweet but mischievous Fred beats the incumbent by one vote. The movie became a state art-house hit and Tuttle a star, SPREAD FRED bumper stickers pasted to cars zipping along...
...Microsoft bigot, exactly. I just worry about what the world will be like when it finally squashes all competition. For instance, I used Netscape's browser for years and have it on my computer still. But it's become something of an affectation, like sporting a DOLE IN '96 bumper sticker. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 does most of what Netscape's browser does, and it fits better with the Windows operating system--exactly as Bill Gates and his evil geniuses intended. Besides, I got so sick of all the insistent dialogue boxes that Windows popped up whenever I installed...
...living like there's no God, says the bumper sticker, you'd better be right. Current events suggest a corollary: If you're living like there's no media, you'd better be clever--especially if you run a country that cut its colonial teeth burning witches and branding naughty women with big red A's. But Clinton wasn't clever, according to Starr. He wasn't even awake, it seems. To keep his love toy under wraps, it's charged, he enrolled every friend, acquaintance and staff member other than the senior White House tour guide. He babbled away...
Most heinous, in the course of the parade one man jumped behind the truck, clung to the bumper and was slowly dragged down the street--a cruel reference to the dragging death of James Byrd earlier this year in Jasper, Texas, by three white...
...investigators let their man go too hastily? The gendarmes' technical report, a copy of which has been obtained by TIME, declares that "the initial coat is compatible with the white traces visible on the Mercedes" and that the plastic bumper had a "composition compatible with the transparent, blackish traces visible on the Mercedes." The report said the left rear light did not appear to have been damaged (the mystery Fiat had left taillight fragments on the road), but that the body of the car had been repaired at the precise spot where the Mercedes would have clipped...