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...What Could Go Wrong? For one thing, scandal. The drip-drip-drip of revelations about Hillary and Whitewater could undermine Clinton's new era of good feeling. Senator Al D'Amato would like to keep his hearings rumbling through the fall. "I was glad to have the opportunity to tell the grand jury what I have been telling you," Mrs. Clinton said wearily, after testifying for more than four hours before a grand jury last week. It's still an eternity before next November...
RECOVERING. CHUN DOO HWAN, 64, former South Korean President; from a 26-day hunger strike; in Seoul. Chun was arrested in December for his role in the 1979 coup that brought him to power. He was given oxygen and an intravenous drip, and should be well enough to be tried in about a month...
...LADDER OF YEARS by Anne Tyler (Knopf). Here's an almost perfect summer-weight, drip-dry, easy-care novel. Delia Grinstead is terminally comfortable, or nearly so, in her life as a 40-year-old wife and mother. The trouble is she has become all but invisible, even to herself. So, one day, on the faintest of whims, she wanders away from the family beach house and lights out for the territories. Such fantasies have grabbed all of us now and then, and Tyler writes her runaway's adventures not just as stylish comedy but as intriguing possibility...
...back of their four-wheel drive car and drove her 50 miles west to the clinic in the town of Mosango. She was unconscious when they arrived; the sisters stayed at her bedside all night, praying and soothing and holding her arm so the intravenous drip would stay in place. Sister Floralba died within a few days, and all three sisters caring for her brought the body back to Kikwit...
...good that Chem 17 students no longer have to struggle with a lab that is designed for the more advanced Chem 30 whiz-kids. But it would be better if the Chem 17 lab--a waste of five hours watching liquids drip or evaporate--were completely overhauled so that it required some intellectual activity from those students performing...