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...press release Ovitz acknowledged, "It is important to recognize when something is not working." For Disney, his exit comes at a perfect time: despite troubles at recently acquired ABC, its theme parks are booming and the studio is enjoying a bumper crop of holiday hits, including Ransom and 101 Dalmatians. Analysts were unperturbed. "This is as good a time as any to have this kind of change in top management," said Harold Vogel of Cowen...
...boss loves her for her tart tongue and tough stands: he still keeps the bumper sticker bearing her infamous sneer at Castro for shooting down two American civilian planes last February: THIS IS NOT COJONES; THIS IS COWARDICE. But Albright's bulldog style is not admired nearly as much abroad. When word of her appointment reached a black-tie U.N. dinner, there was no international equivalent of high fives. Could she, muttered colleagues, gear down her confrontational style enough to succeed in the delicate art of nation-to-nation negotiation? French diplomats, who tangled with her over her aggressive campaign...
...itself effective. Originated in Los Angeles in 1983 under the administration of Daryl F. Gates, who was then police chief, D.A.R.E. sends police into the schools to present 17 sessions on specific drugs, resisting peer pressure and like topics, sometimes using an array of "D.A.R.E.-ephernalia," from charts and bumper stickers to T shirts and talking robots...
...balloons have all popped, the confetti been swept away. Lawn signs will be pulled down and bumper stickers will erode. High school bands in swing states will go back to playing at football games instead of political rallies. Our airwaves can be reclaimed in the name of products we don't need, after having been temporarily subjugated by candidates we don't want. It is all over. Bob Dole, who first faced the voters at age 27, has waged his last campaign and lost. Bill Clinton, who ran his first race at age 28, has waged his last campaign...
...learned from a young age that you should never reveal your weight, your salary or who you vote for. So while I will never tell who I am voting for in this election--check my bumper stickers, window signs and pin-up posters in my room if you want to try to deduce it--for the sake of illustration I will make an exception to the rule and let you peek inside my first trip to the voting booth...