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...Gale Norton INTERIOR SECRETARY A fierce critic of Clinton's drive to protect national monuments, she has called for new drilling in Alaska. The conservative face of Bush environmentalism...
Most days, this critic is happy to be a man. But he wished he could switch genders for half an hour so as to be truly, properly insulted by this bogus female-bonding sitcom about a set of cookie-cutter sibs: a bitter careerist (Vicki Lewis), a pretty ditz (A.J. Langer) and a maternal yuppie (Katherine LaNasa). The Chekovian title and the creators' resumes (Roseanne, Murphy Brown) can't hide the cliches as the show daringly reveals that women obsess over carbs and tangle with clueless guys. Be it from Mars or Venus, let's hope that Sisters...
...Inter-Continental, one of the first people I run into is Guy Garcia. Longtime readers of TIME may remember that Garcia was reviewing music for TIME magazine before I started on as music critic here about eight years ago. Now he's VP of content and programming at AOL Latin America, which is the chief sponsor of Rock in Rio. Readers of TIME should rest assured that I don't plan to parlay my position into any high-paying corporate positions, though if anyone from Intel, Microsoft or Cisco is reading this, my résumé is available upon...
...more the merrier. "Our primary goal was to create an event for Brazil and open that up for the rest of the world," says Garcia. "To them, this is their Woodstock." Garcia's "people" (note to self: get a job where I have "people." As a lowly music critic I am people-less) give me my press passes and three T-shirts. They tell me that I'm required to wear one of the T-shirts each day of the concert. The T-shirt is a female-sized medium. I'm a six-foot, five-inch, 220-pound...
...Arthur Post Number One, gathered the other day for our annual Christmas lunch, presided over by the distinguished author Stefan Kanfer, whom People magazine designated as "The Sexiest Man Alive" in 1947, and by the distinguished columnist John Leo, who is also cute as a button. The distinguished critic R.Z. Sheppard, for his part, is short-listed by People magazine as one of the "Most Intriguing People of 2001," although, frankly, I can't quite...