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...early, heady days of one of the most influential social movements of his lifetime -- the birth of modern feminism. Hillary is part of that legacy; few men of an older political generation would feel comfortable with wives who earned far more than they did. Sometimes lost < amid the Hillary hype is a larger truth: Clinton, like many baby boomers, feels comfortable around intelligent women. Politics has always been a locker- room sport, but in the Clinton campaign the role of women transcended tokenism and approached equal power...
...case, the hype surrounding the U.S. Men's Basketball Team during the heart of the baseball season poignantly reminded baseball fans of a painful truth. Unlike pro basketball, Major League Baseball today has no one who holds the national appeal in the way that Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley do--or, for that matter, in the way that Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio and numerous others once...
...True, there is James Wolcott's ghastly hype-hop prose: ' "Going to Extremes" . . . mentholates the senses like a Club Med ad.' Plus some slipshod editing: two Dan Quayle 'potatoe' jokes. But broken columns, boxed poems and spots of color and photographs enhance rather than vulgarize. Pieces are shorter than before but cut deeper -- especially 'News from Hell,' concerning the events in Sarajevo by new contributor Anna Husarska. Yet tradition has not been entirely scrapped: see Roger Angell's valedictory to Fay Vincent, recently decapitated commissioner of baseball. Miraculously, after a long arid spell the cartoons are funny again -- particularly those...
...believe the hype...
...Harvard men's water polo team took a huge step last night toward fulfilling its hype as "the greatest team in Harvard history...