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GEORGIA Atlanta is solidly Democratic. The suburbs lean G.O.P. The rest is up for grabs. With Democratic former Governor Zell Miller running for Senate, Democratic turnout should be high...
...expected--some men spend no time at all in slow-wave sleep, the most restful stage. Less restful sleep may lead to that other indignity of aging: the middle-age paunch. That's because the body needs slow-wave sleep in order to produce a growth hormone linked to lean tissue. That's enough to keep a guy awake at night...
...politics. He's the rare politician, his legion supporters say, with both impeccable ethics and a healthy dose of self-denigrating humor. Monday, Lieberman's selection sent ripples of joy through the Jewish community in the Northeast; conservative religious Jews, who have tended recently to support candidates who lean to the right on social issues, reversed themselves and pledged their support to the Gore-Lieberman ticket...
...Hollywood, David Lean used Guinness to hold up his epics, like the third leg of a tripod. As Colonel Nicholson in "Bridge on the River Kwai," the Arab prince Feisal in "Lawrence of Arabia," Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago in "Doctor Zhivago," there was the story, the place, and somewhere, Alec Guinness. The moment in "Kwai" when the maniacally correct Nicholson stumbles across William Holden - "You!" - and looks at the ground as bullets fly and disillusionment explodes all over Nicholson's face - could have won him his Best Actor all by itself. The movie, too big for the grimacing Holden to fill...
...Arafat. More importantly, it's dispatched a senior State Department official on a discreet tour of Arab capitals to discuss the Jerusalem issue - cajoling Arafat into a deal on the Holy City will be impossible without the backing of a pan-Arab consensus, and Washington may be inclined to lean on Arab allies such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia to take some responsibility for fashioning a compromise. The art of compromise, as ever, will be finding a solution that each side can sell as a victory. And that's not at all inconceivable: Jerusalem's importance to each side, after...