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...husband, Bruce, charge d'affaires in Iran. Those of us who went through that ordeal with Carter were grateful he was President, because he and Rosalyn Carter showed the hostages and their families enormous compassion. The second is that in the week prior to the dedication of the multimillion-dollar Reagan Building and the renaming of Washington National Airport, it was barely noted in the press that Secretary of the Navy John Dalton held a ceremony naming the latest nuclear submarine the U.S.S. Jimmy Carter. As Dalton so aptly put it, Carter is like a submarine in that he runs...
Scaife is to Clinton haters what the Medicis were to Michelangelo: the ultimate patron. Until late last year he subsidized the so-called Arkansas Project, a multimillion-dollar campaign, run by the Spectator, to dig up and publish dirt about the Clintons and their friends. From 1993 to 1997, two Scaife foundations transferred $2.4 million to another foundation that owns the Spectator. The magazine turned over much of that money to Stephen Boynton, a Virginia attorney and conservative activist, who spread it around to hunt down stories about the President through various means, including private detectives. The possibility that...
...finds itself in the midst of a full-scale romance revival, and women seem to be smitten. Minimalist Marc Jacobs is dabbling in pink and pleats. Tocca, a label specializing in girlish party dresses that began with a collection of 11 pieces in 1994, has evolved into a multimillion-dollar business. Jewelry is having a renaissance. "We're just all so tired of looking plain," notes Andrea Linett, a fashion writer at Harper's Bazaar and a Calypso regular. "The new version of a white T shirt and khakis is a camisole and sexy, fitted trousers. Femininity now signifies...
...anomaly not just because it starts five anonymous white guys in what has become a game of bigger-than-life black stars, but because in basketball today, individualism pays. Fans buy tickets to see darting one-on-one moves, awesome dunks and 30-point games by players with multimillion-dollar endorsement deals, not pinpoint bounce passes and pretty pick-and-rolls by a bunch of unknowns whose leading scorer is averaging under 15 points a game...
Amongst the cutthroat competition of the mom-and-pop music stores that litter Mass. Ave, Tower Records somehow manages to stay in business, proving that multimillion-dollar corporations can still survive in alternative-era Boston...