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These days, Pusey said, his primary activities are "reading and staying alive." Despite his joking, others at the celebration thought Pusey looked chipper for a man born before both World Wars and whose political adversary was Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican who assailed many Harvard professors during the Cold...
Today the block is well on its way to becoming Manhattan's most chipper. On its east end a onetime porno palace--where Robert De Niro took Cybill Shepherd on an ill-fated date in Taxi Driver--is now a children's theater. Across the street, next to the New Amsterdam, is a big, bright Disney store--probably the only Disney store in the world that is just four doors away from an establishment that sells scary-looking swords and knives, boxing equipment and dusty copies of Bruce Lee videos. The latter retailer is one of two storefront businesses that...
Bill Clinton didn't expect to convince Boris Yeltsin that expanding NATO eastward, toward Russia, is a great idea. The newly chipper Russian President arrived at last week's Helsinki summit trailing a string of sound-bite warnings that he would not budge. Clinton did hope, though, that a friendly reunion, with both Presidents dropping jovial one-liners about ailments and recuperation, could establish a mood for compromise. On the night before the meeting, Clinton, recovering from knee surgery, had trouble sleeping--he heard a loud banging above the ceiling of his room. The next day he joked with Yeltsin...
...week to conjure up nightmare scenarios, yet no one has articulated the most frightening peril posed by human cloning: rampant self-satisfaction. Just consider. If cloning becomes an option, what kind of people will use it? Exactly--people who think the world could use more of them; people so chipper that they have no qualms about bestowing their inner life on a dozen members of the next generation; people, in short, with high self-esteem. The rest of us will sit there racked with doubt, worried about inflicting our tortured psyches on the innocent unborn, while all around us shiny...
...Dole doing advertisements for Air France? Perhaps this is surprising. However, the New York Times informs us that Dole is, as usual, far from setting a precedent. Eleanor Roosevelt, the guru herself, did margarine commercials. Maybe Hillary will soon be smiling at the camera with a chipper, "I can't believe it's not butter...