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...campaign coverage becomes saturated with questions of personal morality (a.k.a. "character"), candidates respond with by now ritualized pledges of undying fealty to family and, above all, to "family values." What is curious about these paeans to family, however, is that they come at a time when Americans seem intent as never before on taking the family apart. The divorce rate is more than twice what it was 30 years ago. More than half of , American children will live in a single-parent home sometime before age 18. A quarter of all births in the U.S. occur out of wedlock, five...
...Americans for Bush"; this time they're the "Presidential Victory Committee." They have a $10 million budget, and "what they'll do," says Stone, "is kind of obvious." All they've said so far is what they won't do: they won't establish a 900 number so the curious can hear the Gennifer Flowers tapes. Beyond that, every mini-scandal and Clinton slickery is considered fair game...
...Berry, reposes a fabulous Audio- Animatronics dragon that snorts steam, flashes its stoplight eyes and bares claws nearly as long as Barbra Streisand's in The Prince of Tides. Kids love teasing the reptile; take them to see it. And lose them, if you care to, in Alice's Curious Labyrinth, a 400-yd. maze dominated by a tennis court-size Cheshire cat painted in flowers. You can get lost -- really lost -- among the high hedges and the pop-up Carroll characters...
...array of responsibilities is perfectly in keeping with Jim's range of interests. He is a voracious reader, of everything from Hollywood trade papers to international political journals, and can opine as fluently on David Letterman's monologues as on the Middle East peace talks. "I'm almost as curious about why the royals split up as about why Tsongas quit the Democratic race," he says...
When it comes to commerce with other countries, both candidates support a free-trade policy but would impose sanctions on nations that discriminate against American products. Tsongas wants consumers to practice "economic loyalty" by purchasing domestic goods when they differ little from imports in price and quality -- a curious mixture of consumerism and Buy America policies...