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...Ryan will commute to the Library of Congress - quite a trek from her home in Fairfax, Calif. Until she takes office this fall, she will try to maintain her normal routine, riding her bicycle in the hills and running - the things, she says, "that keep me sane...
...firms that pulled out of the Mediterranean after terrorism wrecked the cruise business there. Governor Bill Sheffield nervously counts the house with what is beginning to sound like real optimism. ''Not bad, not bad,'' he says of the expected 1 million travelers, 200,000 over the now normal 12% to 15% growth rate. (Some 710,000 tourists showed up last year.) The state's tourism director, Don Dickey, says, ''This will be the party year.'' Already, as the state swings into summer, the party is on. The most spectacular sight in central Alaska is massive 20,320-ft. Denali...
...Shearer: You know, that's one reason why I'm in this business - because I'm capable of perpetual, irrational surprise. [I thought] that even the normal risk-averse corporation would say, "Well, gee, Bush is at a 21% approval rating. I guess it's safe to do this now." I call Clear Channel "dead-enders," because it shows they are going to be the last guys standing: "No, no, no, he's great, he's great." We know that free speech isn't free, but now I'm learning that even paid speech isn't free...
...that though his club had previously not needed a license, he now had to apply for one and could not stage any shows until he received it. He hopes and expects that such stringency is temporary and that when the Olympics have come and gone, things will return to normal. "I can't wait until they're done," he says with a sigh...
...doctors or academics. Members chant privately, but meet regularly in each other's whitewashed apartment buildings and bougainvillea-shaded homes. They come, Mehta says, looking for a safe place to talk about their tough bosses and bad breakups. "These are not the things that you can take to the normal Hindu priest," she says...