Word: mountaintop
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...Gentleman" Jim Jeffords, those fleeting 15 minutes of fame had finally arrived. A part-time Civil War buff who just happens to be about the most liberal Republican in the U.S. Senate, Jeffords sat at his peaceful mountaintop farmhouse near Burlington, Vermont, last week taking half- desperate telephone calls from the likes of Vice President Al Gore, Education Secretary Dick Riley, Labor chief Robert Reich and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. All were calling to persuade Jeffords to vote for Bill Clinton's embattled economic stimulus package when it comes up for a vote this week. The White...
...model of our future, cars and buses have voices, doors and elevators speak. The answering machine talks to us, and for us, somewhere above the din of the TV; the Walkman preserves a public silence but ensures that we need never -- in the bathtub, on a mountaintop, even at our desks -- be without the clangor of the world. White noise becomes the aural equivalent of the clash of images, the nonstop blast of fragments that increasingly agitates our minds. As Ben Okri, the young Nigerian novelist, puts it, "When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music...
...know that God did not drop me on a mountaintop," Clinton said. "I was born in the valley andlifted to this office on the hopes and dreams ofpeople in the valleys all across this country...
...landmark Peabody hotel in Memphis and who moved to California two years ago, where he runs recording studios and studies the teachings of an Indian guru. And then there is Stone, Roger's manager, who favors lobster dinners and snakeskin boots and spent years sharing the road and mountaintop commune of the heavy-metal boogie band Black Oak Arkansas...
...determine what the principals are thinking, deputy managing editor John Stacks and Karsten Prager, managing editor of TIME International, joined Cairo bureau chief Dean Fischer, correspondent William Dowell and reporter Lara Marlowe for an interview with Assad at the presidential palace on a mountaintop overlooking Damascus. Later, Fischer, Dowell and reporter Robert Slater met with Rabin at his office in Jerusalem. Almost as important as what the two men said was the moderate, relatively rancor-free tone of their responses. That alone is progress...