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Jamaica's cast of characters is worthy of a Dickens novel, except Dickens' characters never said "ganga" so much. Along the beach, each salesman has a name appropriate to his task. Chef grills the jerk chicken; Jelly-Man sells jellied coconuts off his cart. The beachfront entrepreneur with the most pedestrian name is John, a re-located Chicagoan who runs one of the chillest open-air bars in Negril. Why did he give up life in a first-world country to become a self-proclaimed "beach bum"? "Mid-life crisis," he says. His friend, Hills-Man, comes to the beach...
Others just enjoyed the day's events. Shawn Khan operated perhaps the least popular stand for a rainy, cold day - a Baskin Robbins ice cream cart - yet still managed to have...
...high beams on. The occasion was a celebration of Oprah's star turn in the new film Beloved and of her appearance on the cover of Vogue magazine. She posed next to a huge blowup of the cover, bathed in camera light. The woman who once dragged a cart of fat into a TV studio to dramatize her battles with obesity, the nappy-headed girl who grew up poor in Kosciusko, Miss., had become a full-fledged movie star...
...impeachment balloon in the wake of President Clinton's videotape performance, the backroom maneuvering on Capitol Hill has become increasingly intense -- and openly partisan. Speaker Newt Gingrich nixed minority leader Dick Gephart's request to strictly timetable the House impeachment probe Wednesday, saying it "puts the cart before the horses." An angry Gephardt responded by denying Gingrich a joint photo-op following their meeting Wednesday, perhaps the most potent political snub there is. It's a sign that Democrats are taking heart from the President's poll numbers and getting behind the White House's "censure plus" plan -- censure plus...
Pushing against these negative currents, fortunately, is the persistent, fundamental strength of the U.S. economy. The trend in wages and employment, which wield far more influence over consumer confidence and spending than stock prices, remains strong. As she placed a tortilla warmer in her shopping cart last week at a store in Nashville, Tenn., Sue Allison, 53, a public relations officer for the Tennessee supreme court, observed that "there are a million people out tonight spending $90 on nothing, just as I am. My husband and I won't touch [our retirement stocks] for at least 15 years...