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...Wednesday the mayor made her daily appearance on KCNN-FM's "relief radio," where owner Dave Norman wears a shirt that says, no water, no food, no power, no problem. Owens often recognizes the voices of callers before they identify themselves. "I looked toward your house the other day and remembered the good old days," she told someone named Vicky, "and I actually got tears in my eyes...
This year marks the 13th NCAA Tournament appearance during the 21-year tenure of head coach Dave Fish '72. Harvard has qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the last eight seasons...
...Absolute Power, have passed through theaters, and a third arrives next week: Murder at 1600, in which Wesley Snipes, playing a Washington detective, investigates a homicide at the well-known Pennsylvania Avenue address. These films are only the most recent manifestations of a trend that dates back to Dave, the 1993 comedy in which Kevin Kline plays a gentle presidential impostor. Since then we have probably seen more Presidents onscreen than, say, strippers and volcanologists combined. We have seen Presidents and ex-Presidents as the lead in a romantic comedy (The American President), as crabby partners in a road movie...
Ivan Reitman, who directed Dave, believes the spate of White House movies may be in part a kind of narcissistic reaction to the Clinton presidency: the fact that Clinton, like many of those in power in Hollywood, is an unabashed baby boomer has made the office seem more accessible. "He's just like me," Reitman says. "He's my age. He probably smoked pot. There are a lot of commonalities." "He's more available to us," agrees Bernstein, who means "available" socioculturally as well as literally. The President's proclivity for hobnobbing with show-biz folk is well known...
...aircraft. Today the average Air Force fighter is nearly 20 years old. Thirty-five years ago, vectored thrust and lasers were fantasies. Now they're realities for the U.S. and other countries. We can't just decide one day that this is the last fighter we'll ever need. DAVE KINCAID Captain, U.S.A.F. Abilene, Texas...