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...President would like it to be seen that way. He has created for himself an unprecedented persona. We have always known him by his contradictions--the raging moderate, the compassionate realist, the hardheaded dreamer. But now Clinton emerges as something new: a feminist Lothario, a New Age Don Juan, Alan Alda with a zipper problem...
...numbers that baseball fans love more than the game itself (whisper the statistics 755, 56 or 61 softly enough to their real fans, and eyes will glisten) are in danger of changing. Cal Ripken Jr. sets a new record for consecutive games every time he steps onto the field. Juan Gonzalez may beat the record for RBIs that Hack Wilson set in 1930. The Yankees threaten to win more games this year than the 1906 Cubs, who won 116. Rookie pitcher Kerry Wood tied the record of 20 strikeouts in a game--and did it at age 20. The most...
...desiccated climate of New Mexico's San Juan Basin, a land of red sandstone mesas peppered with pinon trees, water is so precious that Navajo tradition regards it as a living entity. Survival here has long depended on the health of underground pools and streams that feed wells and the occasional surface spring. That's why Billy Martin is worried. The water supply to his tiny town of Crownpoint (pop. 2,500) is threatened, he says, by money-grubbers who don't understand water's importance to Native American culture. It sounds like a familiar story... until you realize that...
...unfairly vilified anthropologist or a wildly inventive novelist, depending on whether his mind-bending encounters with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer are taken as fact or fiction; who died on April 27; of liver failure; in Los Angeles. An anthropology grad student at UCLA, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge in 1968, the first of many accounts of his apprenticeship to Mexican shaman Don Juan. Readers soaked the books up, even though critics thought Don Juan was just a figment of an active imagination that also manifested itself when the author dispensed false biographical details...
...Getting to the U.S. used to be a nightmare [for Cuban performers]," says Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, a producer of Buena Vista Social Club. "But things are slowly getting better. America is interested in us again. It's in fashion to smoke a Havana, to visit the island, to have an affair with a Cuban woman." In recent months, celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Campbell and Alanis Morrisette have visited the island...