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...premise, I find a volume of John F. Kennedy's collected speeches and leafing through it, a striking difference emerges between his approach and Clinton's: when describing his plans for the nation, Kennedy weaves in words like "costs," "disadvantages" and "burdens." "I believe we should go to the moon," he said during a May 25, 1961, speech. "But I think every citizen as well as the members of Congress should consider the matter carefully.... It is a heavy burden, and there is no sense in agreeing...that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space unless...
...Southern accent came from Carolina Moon, a novel written by Jill McCorkle, Briggs-Copeland lecturer on English and American literature and language. McCorkle read the opening section of the book last night...
JEFFREY KLUGER is well qualified to write about the new breed of smaller, simpler Mars ships set to begin launching this week. He was the co-author, with former astronaut Jim Lovell, of Lost Moon, the book that served as the basis for the popular 1995 film Apollo 13. Kluger knows that when it comes to designing spacecraft, less is indeed more. "NASA engineers who worked in the old lunar program liked to point out that an Apollo spacecraft had 5.6 million individual parts," he recalls. "Even if the ship functioned with 99.9% efficiency, you could still expect...
...follower of fashion shows knows that the kids don't always do what their teachers tell them to. Galliano's snowy roofs and jungle walks are haute theater. McQueen has been known to moon on the runway, and his collection featuring the infamous bumster, jeans designed to bare the bottom, caused a sensation. In his latest London outing, he sank his catwalk under a few inches of water. The models maneuvered well, but when he took his bow, the maestro looked like a cat on a hot tinny puddle...
...romp and a requiem. The Stones' Brian Jones would die the next summer, the Who's Keith Moon and Lennon a decade or so later. But on tape and CD, the stars are alive. So are the craft, magic and zip of '60s rock...