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Which isn't to say that the issue hasn't generated a list of candidates. After all, the New York Times felt PC-ness was important enough to allot a full page in its Sunday "Week in Review" section to "A Campus Forum on Multiculturalism." The goal of the page was to consider "the tyranny of the politically correct...
...Right or have no interest in finding him. Most are women who have achieved a measure of economic self-sufficiency but have delayed childbearing to the point where they hear their biological clocks approaching midnight. "I could imagine going through life without a man," explains Paula Van Ness, 39, executive director of the National Community AIDS Partnership in Washington, "but I couldn't imagine going through life without a child. My biological clock started sounding like a time bomb...
...equation of busy-ness with importance may help to explain Americans' queasiness about vacations. The Washington Post reports that two days before Iraq invaded Kuwait, when troops were already massed on the border, someone tried to reach the head of Kuwait's civil defense, only to be told he was on vacation for the next three weeks. Go ahead and laugh. But is that any more absurd than Dan Rather, who was on vacation in France, spending the day of the invasion desperately scouring the Middle East for a place to broadcast from and ultimately settling for London -- rather than...
Kevin Costner is the man of the moment and a star out of his time. What other actor would think to achieve rampant movie fame by playing a Soviet spy and two baseball fanatics? For Costner, though, the improbable risk was a good career move. As Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, he played the straightest arrow in Prohibition-era Chicago and made saintliness sexy. As Tom Farrell, the cryptic intelligence officer in 1987's No Way Out, he brought devious modernity to a character right out of a '40s suspense novel. As Crash Davis, the bush-league catcher...
...appeal. And for an outdoorsman who was a fine athlete in school, there can be few tangier pleasures than playing baseball in Bull Durham and Field of Dreams or playing a cowboy in Silverado. Even in the Nitti-gritty Untouchables, where he earned his first star billing as Eliot Ness, Costner got to lead a posse to a varmint's hideout...