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...concluding a 24-year political career and easing into senior statesmanship, ought to be beyond such concerns. By choice, he's not. In less than three months--36 years after he blasted into the sky inside the titanium pod of a Mercury spacecraft--he'll return aboard the relatively lavish space shuttle. Even as Congress's August recess begins and the rest of Washington's lawmakers decamp for their favorite vacation spots, Glenn will be in Houston and Florida for his most intensive month of training since being assigned to the mission...
...presidential power. Despite Clinton's warnings, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thumbs his nose at the peace process and Saddam Hussein continues to harass U.N. arms inspectors in Iraq. And the President's China visit--which seemed so triumphant, what with his televised human-rights debate in Beijing and lavish praise for President Jiang Zemin--was immediately followed by a Chinese crackdown on 20 dissidents and an embarrassed admission from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that the Chinese are moving backward on human rights. Great Presidents get other people to do great things...
...This lavish system worked fine when the buyer was the U.S. government or a regulated airline that could pass the entire expense on to its passengers. But such customization no longer flies in an era of deregulated fare wars. Says Robert Hammer, vice president in charge of bringing Boeing production techniques into the 21st century: "This is the largest, most complex business-redesign effort in the world. And we should not be proud of that. It's like saying you've got the biggest spring-housecleaning job in town...
...hugely popular survey show at London's Tate Gallery in 1984. But the show that opened last week at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer," marks the centenary of his death and is by far the most lavish treatment that any Pre-Raphaelite has received from an American museum. It is large (more than 170 works), indeed exhaustive, and fairly glutted with scholarly detail. It is also spectacular, beautiful in patches and coldly, provokingly weird in others, sometimes both at once...
...This is a magazine that makes very few gestures to the cultural habits of our time," says Martin H. Peretz, who is both the magazine's chair and a lecturer in social studies at Harvard. "There are no pull quotes or lavish illustrations. The articles tend to be long and exacting...