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...wonder that no credible opponent of either party has stepped forward to challenge her? "There is a classic Kennedy formula," says Brown University political scientist Darrell West. "It's based on media, money and scaring off the opposition...
...motorcycle consultant with DJB Associates. And it shows. With its aerodynamic look, clamshell-style instrument panel and unpainted aluminum-and-steel frame, the long, low-slung V-Rod lives up to its billing as Harley's first "performance custom" motorcycle--although a pricey one at around $17,000. (A classic hog goes for $10,000 to $15,000.) It features a 115-hp engine, designed with help from Porsche, that claims a top speed of 140 m.p.h.--without the trademark earth-rumbling noise. "We wanted to make our own statement," says Willie G. Davidson, 68, the head designer...
...Whatever happened to Anne Welles?" asks Rae Lawrence in the opening line of Shadow of the Dolls, a sequel to Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann's classic 1966 paean to babes, booze and barbiturates. Susann had her own ideas about the fate of Anne, the well-bred supermodel, and her buddy Neely O'Hara, the libidinous, scheming singer. She wrote a plot outline before she died in 1974, and it is partly from this that romance author Lawrence has drawn the new novel...
George W. Bush's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, which diagnosed the retirement system's ailments in an interim report in late July, has the makings of a classic Type B panel. It was created by the White House to produce a specific result--Executive Order No. 13210 requires its final report to propose creation of voluntary individual-investment accounts to augment the program. Chaired by former New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Richard Parsons, co-chief operating officer of AOL Time Warner (the parent company of TIME), the panel is loaded with members and staff sympathetic...
...when the music started playing, everyone clapped. When film montages of Detroit sports history appeared on large television screens, everyone cheered. And when The Temptations belted out the well-suited classic, “Stay,” everyone sang along...