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...national dress - African countries, notably Nigeria, Lesotho and Swaziland, showed off their traditional clothing. Some teams compromised by sending out a couple of athletes in folk costume and the rest in what might easily pass for air crew uniforms. The handsome man in a short embroidered purple velvet coat and fairy-tale beautiful girl in cream silk and lace who led the Georgians only emphasized the dowdiness of the others on the team...
...rooted. But his critics counter that he never dipped so deep into Scripture in his past campaigns. This, they charge, is just cynical, focus-group politics by a campaign that has deployed Lieberman as a kind of moral turpentine for an Administration badly in need of a fresh coat of paint...
Just as America pointed its finger at teen sociopaths with guns and trench-coat mafias, Japan's reaction has been to blame a subset of societal misfits: the hikikomori (those who isolate themselves). These youths (typically male) shut themselves up in their bedrooms, cutting off contact with the outside world, often for years, into adulthood. "I didn't want anyone to see me, and I didn't want to see anyone," says a hikikomori, 23, who finally came out of his reclusive world a year ago. Some of those accused in the crime spree--including the bus hijacker...
...checking inside her bag on her way out). Cher sang - or at least lip-synced - "Believe." Then, as an apology after admitting to not voting for him, she gave a nice rendition of "If I Could Turn Back Time." Diana Ross took the stage in a big yellow feathery coat and grouched at the band for not being loud enough. She was not alone in her grouching...
...Gore, doffing his suit coat to reveal yet another sweat-soaked white shirt, his campaign uniform lately, began the symbolic handoff. (Alas, no batons or torches.) First he looked back, thanking Clinton for helping build a strong economy and a strong foundation. Then he swung forward: "The question in this election is whether we erode that foundation, or build on it." He recited some of his standard campaign promises, but also showed some flashes of wit that prove he may have learned a thing or two from The Master. Referring to the Republicans' charge at their convention that the Clinton...