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...course, everyone is waiting to see whether Giuliani will be the one who gets lost--whether his health and marital problems will drive him from a race he never seemed keen on making in the first place. By Thursday, all the rumors had him quitting. "Everyone is hearing the same thing," says an adviser to Governor George Pataki. "He's going, and he's going fast." Giuliani maintains that he hasn't made up his mind, and those who know him well caution that he is stubborn and mercurial enough to confound all expectations. "If the entire Republican leadership held...
...swing of "Pandy Fackler" and the oddball Jimmy Buffett-meets-"Hotel California" sound of "Bananas and Blow," White Pepper's tracks either subtly ape the Beatles or not-so-subtly ape the alternaballad crowd that wishes they weren't just aping the Beatles. Though Dean and Gene are as keen in their satire and respectable in their musical skill as ever, something from Ween's past albums and raucous live shows is missing on White Pepper, and it's not just the word "fuck" or the hallucinogens.White Pepper doesn't quite have the quirky magic that makes Ween such...
...mounting figures will never stop unless more serious efforts are made at rehabilitation. Finally, there is the issue of money - prisons gobble up a considerable portion of the public purse (about $15,000 per prisoner, per year). If the economy goes south and the tax base dries up, politicians keen on looking tough on crime may find that a lot of crimes are going to start looking a lot less serious...
...dinner on Monday night, I met Dean (all names are changed to protect the innocent). He quickly became keen on the idea of proving to me how far superior Princeton is to Harvard, particularly on the partying front. To prove his point, Dean and two others took me out drinking that night at the local equivalents of Brew Moon and Charlie's Kitchen, on a Monday night no less. Dean wanted me to admit a Princeton victory, but I resisted. That won me an invitation to join a small group of "hard core" devoted party-goers on Wednesday. I accepted...
Putin chose his direction in life, she says, when studying the heroic days of the Leningrad siege. "Intelligence officers were really glorified," says Stelmakova, "in movies, literature, propaganda." Putin fell for the "romance of intelligence service." Putin says he was so keen to join up that he actually went one day--at age 15--to the local KGB headquarters to volunteer. There, a benevolent spook explained that "we don't take people who come to us on their own initiative." His advice: Go to law school...