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...took the next step--into high-powered mainstream politics, sanding down Pentecostal edges as he went. The last Assemblies member to attain high government rank, President Reagan's Interior Secretary, James Watt, once let drop that "I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns"--a statement exploited by foes who claimed he had no reason to preserve natural resources. Says John Green, a politics-and-religion expert at the University of Akron: "I've never heard Ashcroft say anything like that. [His electoral experience] may not have moderated the substance...
...That stigma bothers entrepreneurs like Reiji, who seek a more mainstream image. To that end, he employs only fresh-scrubbed college grads like Fumiya, 26, a former radio DJ, and Noa, 25, who by day works in sales for a computer company. The $1 million interior of his Roppongi club purrs sophistication. Customers pay a flat fee of $30 an hour, including free wine?unless they want to impress their host by ordering the $10,000 bottle. The floor show is more high-school talent night than Chippendales. "We want women to feel it's safe, comfortable...
...environment. George II has anointed Christine Todd Whitman, governor of New Jersey, as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As one of my friends recently said, "Isn't the fact that she's Governor of New Jersey irony enough?" Moreover, his nominee for Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, is a staunch advocate of opening up the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration. With a slowing economy and energy crisis, such choices and comments point to a worrisome subjugation of the environment to the economy...
Being the smart cookies that we are, there can be no disputing that Harvard students should be the most inventive procrastinators around. We should find no scheme too outrageous to imagine or too elaborate to execute, provided that it keeps us as far away from the interior of Lamont as possible. But if creativity has gone the way of your clean underwear and you find yourself succumbing too often to the usual suspects--namely Brain Break and the Grille--fear not. A new diversionary tactic has hit the scene, and it's all but guaranteed to waste hours and hours...
TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson is keeping an eye on Interior Secretary-designate Gale Norton's confirmation hearings...