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Around Washington, those in awe of the President's resilience say that if Bill Clinton were the Titanic, the iceberg would have gone down. On Thursday night, he lived out that metaphor when he was host to Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair at a formal dinner in the East Room. Like a brightly lit ocean liner on a dark sea, the White House floated above the scandal for five hours, as 240 guests clinked glasses and basked in the glow of being rich, of being powerful, of being there...
Alas, the metaphor falls apart after the 28th, when you try to apply the adage that salespeople have quoted since the onset of commercial marketing, "The customer is always right." Shoppers like to try things on at a relaxed pace and see how they feel and fit: if one item is too itchy and another too tight, we put them back on the rack and start over at the next store. But try this method while looking for classes during Harvard shopping week, and you'll end up with three Cores you've never heard...
...worry about the six-month wait until football training camps start again. Sure, it seems like this annual Death Valley--punctuated only by the oasis of the draft in April--will, like this metaphor, never...
...Polley gives a mesmerizing performance, confined to a wheelchair and unwilling to participate in Stevens' act of retribution. Her story is echoed in Robert Browning's poem, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," which she tells in flashback to the children she baby-sits. Browning's poem provides a recurring metaphor for the film--one not limited to the simple comparison between the children of Hamelin and those of Sam Dent...
Gillett personally relishes skiing "steep and deep," which is not a bad metaphor for his investment style. Like his earlier Vail venture, Gillett II rests on a mountain of junk securities, although these cost a mere 12.5% interest, well below the nosebleed rate for his last go-round. And this time he has two big partners: the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., which owns 50% of the ski operations, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, which has 10%. Says Gillett, who has a hard time containing his optimism: "The demographics are with us. Skiing is at the same...