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Help comes to those who help themselves. Wandering Spirit takes a couple of tunes to fully kick in, but by the third song, Out of Focus, you know Jagger has done himself proud. Not outdone himself exactly: although Wandering Spirit has all the shiftless heft of a prime Stones album, there are few trails blazed here. This is a record of reconsolidations and reconsiderations -- Sticky Fingers with a manicure. It sounds tough, ornery and smoothly unsprung, barbed on top and tenderhearted at the quick...
...this Clintocentric system to work, and hint that he'll need to rely heavily on a White House staff to sort out the big decisions from the small ones. But last week many of the same officials questioned whether Clinton had chosen a staff of sufficient depth and heft to meet the challenge. Before Clinton tapped a conspicuously young White House staff, party elders tried in vain to bring in more seasoned Washington hands. "This whole thing has been structured as spokes of a wheel leading into the President," said a party official. "That's O.K. when you have...
...Michigan theorist Gordon Kane. But as the early universe expanded and cooled, they vanished. Their fleeting existence left behind a fundamental puzzle that physicists are struggling to solve: What makes some particles so massive while others -- photons, for example -- have no mass at all? Because of its boggling heft, the top quark should help illuminate what mysterious mechanisms -- including perhaps other, still weightier particles -- are responsible for imparting mass, and hence solidity, to the physical world...
Clinton's economic education began in earnest in late 1991. Facing an electorate immune to campaign promises, Clinton added heft to his diagnosis of the nation's ills with a 15-page paper titled "A Plan for America's Future." With its emphasis on a tax-rate cut for the middle class, the plan served Clinton well in New Hampshire and for most of the remaining primaries. But by late spring Clinton was pretending he had never seriously proposed the tax cut, and he knew the plan could not survive the close scrutiny it was beginning to receive...
...Deneuve, Indochine has a star of epic glamour and gravity. Her acting craft gives heft to Eliane's gestures, each more heroic than the one before. Her ageless beauty makes Eliane convincing as both a young woman in love with Vietnam and a grandmother ready to raise another orphan and make it her own. In 1985 the actress was the model for the French national symbol Marianne. Deneuve's presence in Indochine is like some burnished monument to the French spirit miraculously preserved on the streets of Saigon...