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...paper records at his Redmond, Wash., headquarters was all but eradicated under his guidance. And so on. But the boldest, broadest stroke of all is this: at a time when the Justice Department appears likely to pop the software Goliath one on the chin, Gates studiously manages to keep mum on the ongoing antitrust trial. Not one peep of anger, frustration or resignation is allowed to pass his literary lips...
Clinton's grasp of Realeconomik includes the tenet that short-term political gains are never worth long-term economic risks. Even though this year he had plenty of incentives to pump up his role in Asia and Russia, he has remained mum. In particular, that meant resisting the temptation to "talk up" the dollar or the stock market or bash the Fed for interest-rate moves. And Clinton has, in typical style, been an aggressive autodidact. Aides recall the time last fall when, nursing an aching back, Clinton spent an afternoon stretched out on a White House couch with...
...love. What makes the play so startling is its mix of old-fashioned dramaturgy--the plot hinges on an undelivered letter--and the chilling, unsentimental way in which it shows the casual cruelty people wield against each other. This is a play in which a daughter slams her mum's hand onto a hot stove and scarcely bats...
...Mum is going mad, Da is a drunk, and what's worse, 12-year-old Francie Brady (played by the remarkable Eamonn Owens) lives in a provincial town in Ireland in the early '60s. That means neighbors who are either dim or actively disapproving as the Bradys fall further and further into disarray. It also means that Francie's racing imagination is being fed with cultural junk food--cheap religious icons and TV purveying low-end sci-fi and images of the atomic Armageddon that everyone brooded on in those days...
Just in time. For the Zone has become the diet of choice for many world-class athletes and has reportedly hooked celeb dieters Madonna, Howard Stern and Bill Clinton, though the White House is keeping mum. Considering the short shelf life of most fads, the Zone has reached adolescence gracefully. In Southern California it has mushroomed from a life-style choice to an industry. Life Zone, a health club devoted solely to putting people on Zone diets, has seen 1,500 customers in the past two years enlist in its 12-week program. At the bistro L.A. Farm...