Word: jacked
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...Still, much of the new moralism crosses party lines. Democracy's Discontent, the recent pro-virtue book by liberal scholar Michael Sandel, got a column-long tribute from conservative George Will. The "communitarians," such as Amitai Etzioni, draw praise from the left (Clinton and Al Gore) and the right (Jack Kemp and Bennett). And Bennett's attack on tabloid TV came at the suggestion of a Democrat, Senator Joseph Lieberman...
...nearly all-white sport gives him a marketing potential as remarkable as his distance off the tee. Thus Nike and the golf-ball maker Titleist combined to guarantee Woods a reported $43 million during the next five years for product endorsements. While other golfers like Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Greg Norman have parlayed their championship standings into huge fortunes made off the course, Woods has the potential to take that money-spinning skill to a new level. Even though golf lacks the mass popularity of basketball, Woods could be Michael Jordanesque in the world of sports marketing...
...technogadgetry with which he is so obsessed, Clancy cannot seem to turn in a novel that weighs less than a laptop. At 4 lbs. and 874 pages, his ninth, Executive Orders (Putnam; $27.95), is another doozy of laborious plot, bombastic jingoism and tedious detail. This time out, Clancy hero Jack Ryan, former CIA director, National Security Adviser, investment banker and maritime historian, gets the only job left to him that doesn't involve manning a cash register at Denny's: President of the United States...
...rest assured that there is little time for lunching with Barbra Streisand. Ryan ascends to the top spot when a Japanese airplane plunges into the U.S. Capitol, killing the President, his Cabinet and most members of Congress. Jack's the only guy left, and before he can say middle-class tax cut he has to start battling united Iran-Iraq forces, right-wing militia, a new worldwide plague, terrorists and aggressive TV journalists. "I don't know what to do," he says to himself in a typically Clancyesque moment of self-reflection. "Where's the manual, the training course...
EXPECTING. HEATHER HARLAN, 26, actress, and her husband TONY RANDALL, 76; in London. The baby's debut is expected in April. Randall is in London for a stage revival of The Odd Couple, with Jack Klugman, his co-star in the TV series...