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...different type of generational enclave: Palm Springs, a remarkably well-landscaped desert entirely populated by tan elderly individuals ready to play golf at a moment's notice. Our "economy" rental car and solid-colored clothing was painfully out of place in this burg, so humming U2 (no tape-deck in "economy" rentals) we hurried on our way. Joshua Tree, not surprisingly, was filled with Joshua trees, but it offered little in the way of generations and lots in the way of El Nino-induced drizzle. So with the prototypical National Park day of driving, staring at Visitor Center displays...
...Academy of American Poets--might be a good time to ponder that question. More admired in principle than in practice, more respected than read, American poetry has survived the '90s through a combination of benign neglect, accumulated goodwill and a devoted cult of readers who will still be on deck reciting favorite lines should the poetic Titanic ever go down. But there's good news: the lifeboats have been launched. This publishing season brings three books--J.D. McClatchy's Ten Commandments, Yusef Komunyakaa's Thieves of Paradise and Deborah Garrison's A Working Girl Can't Win--with room...
...straight-shooting caricature of the nouveau riche. Of course, Cameron also makes bland references to the injustice of class oppression. Several back-to-back shots reveal that the ship's wealthy patrons are only able to enjoy its luxuries because of the sweat of the poor workers laboring below deck...
Gates will be joined at the witness table by archrival CEOs JIM BARKSDALE of Netscape and SCOTT MCNEALY of Sun. But Gates won't face a stacked deck: he persuaded Hatch to have Microsoft-friendly witnesses balance out the panel. Gates will be escorted to the hearing by Senator SLADE GORTON of Washington State, who wants Hatch to be nice to his famous constituent. It's a favor Gorton can return: he's chairman of the subcommittee that controls Interior spending, which affects many of Hatch's Utah constituents...
...often scandals come to this. The fate of those on the upper deck hangs on the mettle of those below. History belongs to Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright--until it devolves to Dwight Chapin and Rose Mary Woods and Betty Currie. But this time we have more than the keeper of the secrets moving center stage; we have the moral center of a drama that had lacked one. If Linda Tripp has come to be the Iago of the piece, full of malice, Currie occupies a place of goodness nearly unparalleled. One of her closest friends, Judy Green, a vice...