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Then there was the realization that women do not necessarily inhabit a loftier moral plane than the men they intend to dislodge. Illinois' Carol Moseley Braun got hit with Medicaid-fraud charges for failing to report a windfall that might have helped pay her mother's nursing-home bill. Yeakel was revealed to have paid $17,000 in back taxes on the eve of announcing her candidacy. Congresswoman Barbara Boxer had 143 bounced checks to account for. In the nastiest race of all, two New York feminists, Geraldine Ferraro and Elizabeth Holtzman, went down biting and clawing -- to make...
...that serves as its title, the album, which its creator describes as "rock soap opera," flirts with esoteric meanings as it chronicles the love affair between a pop superstar named Prince and the princess of a fictional Middle Eastern kingdom. Still struggling to reconcile his animal instincts with his loftier passions, Prince once again bares his tortured muse -- a silver-throated satyr torn between heaven and hell. But this time around, the paradox is addressed with a wry self-awareness that suggests he has struck a productive truce with his old demons. Chaste confections like And God Created Woman, Sweet...
...values these days. Yes, the outfit that gave us the devilish Guns N' Roses is now pushing MICHAEL W. SMITH, a contemporary Christian star. Last year Smith's Place in This World was a No. 6 pop single. With his new album, Change Your World, Smith aims for the loftier success of Amy Grant, who blazed the Christian-to-pop crossover. But while the secular songs Geffen will promote to radio are pleasant (the syrupy duet with Grant, Somewhere Somehow, could be a smash), the album's better cuts reflect Smith's religious roots. A standout: Cross of Gold, which...
...houses with a south aspect, the sun's rays penetrate into the porticoes in the winter, but in summer the path of the sun is right over head and above the roof, so there is shade. We should build the south side loftier to get the winter sun and the north side lower to keep out the cold winds...
...many readers, tabloids are nothing more than the print equivalent of candy bars -- fun but insubstantial. But when it comes to his cover story on the alleged 12-year affair between Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers, Kaplan asserts that the tabloid, based in Tarrytown, N.Y., is on a loftier mission. "This isn't Martians walking the earth," he says. "This is a very, very real inquiry into the integrity of a major presidential candidate...