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...President Bush. "I don't like to sit around in meetings for hours and hours and hours," he told TIME during the campaign. "People will tell you, I get to the point." Meetings should be crisp and should end with decisions. Talking matters less than doing. "People who make up Republican White Houses come from the business world and are used to a business-like routine: getting in early, getting it done and going home," says Bush spokes-man Ari Fleischer. By contrast, he adds, Democrats tend to come from "the world of government service, which is much more hectic...
...means of communication available, most kids still prefer to get letters through the good old U.S. mail, say camp directors. Nothing beats the intimacy of Mom's handwriting or Dad's clippings of the latest sports stats--and no one has yet figured out how to tuck a crisp $5 bill into an e-mail or fax for spending at the camp store (though that will come soon enough). No matter how the mail arrives, says Rodger Popkin, president of the American Camping Association and co-owner of Blue Star Camps in North Carolina, "if we're doing...
...Martha Stewart, but as a child I did learn how to sort laundry, and I mean the right way, with none of the slipshod mixing of the pinks and the reds that I see creeping into our culture these days. If called upon, I can also execute a crisp hospital corner on a top sheet. It used to be perfectly ordinary to learn these household skills from chore-savvy people like my mother, whose idea of recreation was to wash down the walls...
...head and the body and scores points in both areas. Drummer Steve Shelley of the underground rock band Sonic Youth met Christina Rosenvinge, a Spanish singer, while he was traveling in Europe. Frozen Pool, her debut for his label, Smells Like Records, boasts an elegant cool, with Rosenvinge's crisp vocals breezing along like winter winds over smooth snowdrifts. The listener, chilly but charmed, is carried away. --By Christopher John Farley
...next showed one junkie in handcuffs and the second lying dead with a syringe sticking from his arm. Then we see the survivor in a hospital bed surrounded by caring medical staff. Finally we witness the junkie's glorious rebirth. He now has short hair and wears a crisp green longyi, or Burmese sarong, and a white waistcoat...