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...Laura Tyson is the muscle behind Clinton's trade plan...
When the Clinton Administration last week uncorked a tough new approach aimed at cracking Japan's trade barriers to computers, auto parts and other imports, top officials in Tokyo immediately rejected the policy as "unrealistic." To which Laura D'Andrea Tyson, chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, calmly remarked to a colleague, "That's good. It shows they fear that we're on to something that will get results...
...sometimes creaks when it's not playing with the beasties. For the first half-hour -- the preshow before the thrill ride -- you are advised to bide your time. Screenwriter David Koepp's subplot, in which a paleontologist (Sam Neill) is force-fed lessons in fatherhood by his paleobotanist girlfriend (Laura Dern), is laid on with a trowel. And the plot occasionally beggars belief. If you were up a huge tree and a van were teetering on the branch above you, would you race down the side of the tree just ahead of the plummeting vehicle, or would you move sensibly...
...Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels, Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...
...Senior Laura Alonzo never got to kiss Matt Biondi. Biondi, the 1988 Olympic swimming hero, was presenting the trophy for high point awards in Alonzo's Bay Area summer recreational swimming league. Alonzo had worked hard and won her 13-year-old age group--and the right to accept a trophy from Biondi...