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...Bumpers. He is their "conscience," they say, and their walking institutional memory. "Bill looks up and sees Bruce in the room and feels rooted," says Clinton's longtime friend Carolyn Staley. That is largely because the President-elect knows that Lindsey will never change: that he will always wear khaki pants and a navy blazer, that he will always have the latest political biography on his shelf, that he can sing along to Heartbreak Hotel and play hearts with Clinton until the candidate comes down from his political high and goes to sleep, and that he won't take himself...
Pretoria, 4 p.m. Piet Rudolph, 54, a grim, potbellied former policeman wearing a khaki uniform with swastika-like emblems, slips into an empty basement restaurant. Run by a trusted friend, it is one of the places where he can hide if the police are looking for him. He prefers to stay in the shadows with the lights off as he settles into a corner table...
...that steps from a tumultuous gray sea backdrop through a slanted window wearing hiking boots, khaki pants and a red button-down? He is the same man who trudges around in dirty pajamas with socks falling off his feet for over half of the play in which he stars. He responds with a thumbs-up when asked "How goes it?" and sings a biblical quote in an Elvis impersonation. He is truly an unusual Hamlet...
...patterns. Lands' End is mail-order Gap for more conservative dressers. L.L. Bean is mail-order Gap with plaid and boots. Bennetton is Gap with brighter colors. The Limited is Gap with more design. Banana Republic, which is owned by the Gap, is Gap with more pockets and more khaki...
Teachers get them instead. Attired in trim khaki-and-white uniforms, Moton youngsters between the ages of four and 11 work through reading and mathematics exercises and then at recess stampede out of the air-conditioned, cinder-block building to become blurs in the steamy 100 degrees heat. They are candid about their options. "If I was home, I'd just sit around," says fifth-grader Alkima Thomas...