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...after a club sandwich and a swig of coconut milk by the pool, I book a tour of the city, all in the name of finding some sort of guiding theme for my travels. The tour guide, a fortyish woman named Yeda (which she pronounced "Ee-ill-da") stands at the front of the bus telling us about the city as it rushes by us. She repeats her tour guide observations in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Her English is pretty good (and I'm sure her Portuguese is first-rate too) but I seem to understand her Spanish spiel...
...Some of his stunts were wacky or zany (two words best applied to the '50s) and would be punctuated by the two forms of the Steve Allen laugh. One was low and desert-dry ("Eh eh"), the other high and hysterically musical ("Ee! Ee! Ee!"), as if a coloratura were being goosed. But Allen was no more wacky and zany than Steve Martin (who parodied Allen's song "Impossible" by singing "It's impossible/To stick an airplane up your nose/Yes, it's impossible") was wild and crazy. Few comics did Steve Allen impressions; his demeanor was too straight, too assured...
...hurt that she's a jab off the old block. In Detroit two weeks ago, Ali was knocked down in the second round for the first time in her career by Karen Bill. With her dad at ringside and buoyed by chants from the 14,000-strong crowd--"Al-ee! Al-ee! Al-ee!"--she struggled up at the count of eight, then beat on Bill until the referee stopped the fight for a third-round...
BONDS ON THE RISE Interest rates on savings bonds, the ultimate safe investment, were recently reset. Series EE savings bonds issued after May 1997 are now earning 5.19% interest, up from the 4.31% they were earning in May. The Treasury Department just unveiled an online purchasing program at WWW.SAVINGSBONDS.GOV. You can purchase the bonds with either a MasterCard or Visa. Careful. You will pay more in interest on the cards than you will earn on the bonds if you carry a balance...
...EE SAVINGS BONDS The rates of the series EE savings bonds since...