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...safe to predict that none of the thousands of journalists in Chicago this week to witness the renomination of Bill Clinton will choose that particular metaphor, or anything like it, to describe this year's incumbent President. Nor will anyone try to make the case--with a straight face--that Americans in general are particularly "fond" of their leader. Clinton faces a sullen press corps, a larger public that tolerates him at best, and a sizable opposition that despises him with extraordinary passion. Meanwhile, he lacks even a medium-size cadre of genuine enthusiasts. He doesn't have a single...
...original group. But nonetheless, no team has seriously threatened the Dream Team, and don't expect Yugoslavia to change that. Like the U.S., Yugoslavia goes into the gold medal match undefeated. Unlike the Dream Team's 12 NBA all-stars , the Yugoslavian team has just three NBA players, none of whom have played in an all-star game. Charlotte's Vlade Divac leads Yugoslavia, along with Toronto's Zan Tabac and Miami's Sasha Daniliovic. In other events Saturday, Andre Agassi, trying to bounce back from disappointing early losses at the French Open and Wimbledon, goes for the gold medal...
...spinal-cord injuries. Immediately he started wheezing. Within minutes he developed a severe allergic reaction; his lungs could not accept air. His heart rate was going up as his blood pressure was going down; at one point it was about 40 over 20. He sucked in for air, and none was coming. It was as if he were drowning...
Hansen's characters are the seven members of the ship's band (their names and histories taken from the author's imagination, not from the crew list). They are a diverse lot, talented and quirky flotsam from England, France, Ireland, Austria, Italy, Russia and perhaps Germany (though none, strangely, from Scandinavia). We get the life stories of several in brooding, inward, coming-of-age chapters. These are effective, though they show signs of emptying the author's notebooks of a lifetime of cherished oddities, including the story that in the 1730s, Russia's Czarina Anna Ivanovna caused...
...poor or black. Or did, until they made him take it back. But even now Kemp fits the theme: He's nice. Though Dole's nice too this week, and more concise. (Dole's daughter Robin told the crowd he's pleasant. He was a dandy dad, though none too present.) And Dole himself, with admirable pith, Said bigots could just leave the hall forthwith. This showed the Houston spirit was no more: There was no sudden scramble for the door...