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...turn affects what happens in 2000, which then helps shape the rest of his life. For both Bill and Hillary Clinton, what matters now isn't so much what they do as how they seem--how reconciling, how inventive, how invested in the well-being of every last citizen whose hand they will shake and vote they will claim on behalf of their anointed successor, Al Gore. Because in Gore's victory they see their redemption...
...problem. Well, Apple Computer did, and thanks to the makers of Macintosh, Mac users do not have to worry about the Y2K bug in the operating system. Just imagine manpower expenses for those who did not rock the boat--whole nations could be given a free computer for every citizen. WOLFGANG SCHUBERT Tien Mou, Taiwan
...YEAR? By now everyone knows that the title notwithstanding, this designation is not the equivalent of a good-citizen award. Yeah, right. We took one look at the Bill Clinton-Ken Starr double billing on the Dec. 28-Jan. 4 cover, and we knew what we were in for. Sure enough, of the 1,431 letters we received, 881 begged us to "make a New Year's resolution: give more thought to 1999's decision." One disappointed reader suggested we should have changed the title to Jerks of the Year...
...Delegates can, however, agree on Tintin as the prototype citizen of the new Europe: "He was created in Belgium and adopted by France, but in translation he has been embraced by the whole continent," says Crumley. "They see him as a European counterbalance to Mickey Mouse." As if an anti-Mickey were needed in a country that honored Jerry Lewis as a cultural treasure...
...they'd lost to Anchorage, they were ticked. Now they were seriously, seriously p.o.'d. It wasn't just the end-around with an Olympic museum; it was allegations that Nagano organizers had secured the services of agents who promised to deliver votes for huge fees. In 1994 a citizen's group in Japan filed a criminal complaint against Nagano's mayor and the prefecture's governor for allegedly destroying documents said to detail how $18 million in public and private funds were used in Nagano's bid. The case was thrown out, but last week a former Nagano committee...