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Across from the farmers' market in St. Louis, it has been a slow day. A couple of dozen signatures, maybe a mind or two opened. Or closed. The Greenpeacers take down their banners saying STOP FACTORY FARMS! and BAN FACTORY TRAWLERS! The bus eases away from the curb and rumbles toward Lexington...
...number one bus pulls up to the curb next to Johnston Gate and Mass Hall, and with a wheeze, opens its doors to allow passengers aboard...
That's just one reason most record executives are still wary of the practice. Country-music hitmaker Mike Curb, best known for discovering LeAnn Rimes, vows not to use pay-for-play, fearing that the financial lure may tempt stations to start refusing songs unless they're paid. Another opponent is Richard Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur and head of V2 Records, who is worried that pay-for-play will turn listeners off by allowing inferior music on the airwaves. "If radio doesn't give the people what they want," he warns, "the people will go to other mediums...
Klayman, Kenneth Starr and co. can try all they want to curb Clinton's effectiveness, but the President is the Michael Jordan of politics: the more adversity he faces, the more he scores. His leadership has given the country its best time in decades, detractors notwithstanding. Go for it, Mr. President, and give us another slam dunk! LUCIEN LECOMTE Los Angeles...
...remains to be seen, however, whether China takes don't-do-as-we-do advice from the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases and a nation that hasn't exactly rushed to embrace the Kyoto treaty designed to curb them...