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...inspiring show of American women in the Olympics last year, attributable to the passage of Title IX 25 years ago, has fed the W.N.B.A. in the same way that Teresa Weatherspoon (T-Spoon) feeds Sophia Witherspoon (Serving Spoon) for the New York Liberty. Indeed, these are halcyon days for women's sports. Tennis star Martina Hingis has won more money so far this year than such athletes as Tiger Woods and Pete Sampras. The Women's Professional Fastpitch softball league, concentrated in the Southeast, has been pulling in fans and TV viewers in surprising numbers. Two new magazines (SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
Quite a prescription, and Europe might even have a shot at it. Certainly that kind of halcyon future would be the end product that American Presidents and planners have worked for since World War II. It would, as Clinton said, fulfill "the real dream of the Marshall Plan." But rhetorical dreams are poor guides to reality, and this one will not come true easily. Signs of new splits and inequalities are appearing, some of them erupting directly from last week's events...
Still, there is an irresistible urge to detect a master plan amid the riddled texture of transition. Chalk it up to Clinton's honeymoon period, that halcyon interlude when disorder masquerades under the name of guile. But as long as there is no punishment for the natural human urge to share a secret by leaking, the Clinton selection process will continue to provide a new twist to the concept of open government...
...needed time to reflect on what to do next," he says, reminiscing about halcyon days spent living in the shadow of the era's emerging hippie culture...
MARC COHN: MARC COHN (Atlantic). Nimble songwriting and heartfelt singing in the kind of debut album that harkens back to the halcyon days of James Taylor and Jackson Browne. Taylor, in fact, joins in on one tune, but on tracks like the streamlined Silver Thunderbird and Walking in Memphis, Cohn shows off a style that's clearly...