Word: kindergartener
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...trend good or bad? Can the cities cope? No one knows for sure. Without question, urbanization has produced miseries so ghastly that they are difficult to comprehend. In Cairo, children who elsewhere might be in kindergarten can be found digging through clots of ox dung, looking for undigested kernels of corn to eat. Young, homeless thieves in Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby may not know their last names or the names of the villages where they were born. In the inner cities of America, newspapers regularly report on newborn babies dropped into garbage bins by drug-addicted mothers...
...Cambridge pals meet a decade later at the country estate of one of their number, Peter (Stephen Fry). Bright promise has faded; rancor reigns. Life is a melancholy progression: "Kindergarten. School. University. Black hole." In its bantering way, the movie is ambitious to a fault. When it isn't addressing the lapsing of marital love or the exhausting of extramarital lust, it's got dead babies on its mind, and AIDS, and the plight of friends who would be the lovers of friends who'd just as soon...
...Thomas McLarty, Bill Clinton's kindergarten classmate, just too nice a guy to be White House chief of staff? At first that appears to be the case: the mild-mannered McLarty greets a visitor with an open, guileless smile, an almost whispered hello and a courtly bow more suited to a maitre d' than to the CEO of a FORTUNE 500 company. He doesn't hold "meetings" or give "interviews" but instead likes to "visit" with friends and colleagues. Such humility might seem a hazard in the job that got the better of John Sununu and Sam Skinner...
...Commerce-designate Ronald Brown, 51, who helped Clinton mend fences with black voters as Democratic National Chairman, is a sometime lobbyist with close ties to the business community. The corporate world is also likely to feel comfortable with incoming White House chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty, 46. A kindergarten classmate and former campaign treasurer for Clinton, he is chief executive of his home state's largest utility, Arkla...
...Carol Browner, a former aide to Al Gore, will head the Environmental Protection Agency. Saturday was another day for allies: as Secretary of Commerce, Democratic National Committee Chairman Ron Brown, who aided Clinton with black voters; and as White House chief of staff, Thomas ("Mack") McLarty, a Clinton kindergarten classmate, gubernatorial campaign treasurer and chief executive of a major natural-gas utility, Arkla...