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...President, without regard for his family or country, has acted immorally. A man whose first concern after doing wrong is his own embarrassment does not belong in the Oval Office. A man who cannot control himself has no business running a country. JENNIFER DAVIS Albany, Ore...
Ever wonder whether you really have a chance of snagging that plane ticket with your frequent-flyer miles? Congressman Peter DeFazio (D., Ore.) does, and he'll soon introduce a bill requiring airlines to disclose what the odds on a given route actually are. Under the legislation, carriers would also have to provide all possible fares for a trip, not just the ones for a specific time and day. For now, double-check your miles' expiration date; they probably run out sooner than you think...
...readings and reach new audiences. I first heard about them in 1991, when I reported on the growing phenomenon for TIME. Like many poets, I was suspicious of the concept. How could you judge poetry? Why would you want to? But when L.A.'s first team went to Portland, Ore., in 1996, I tagged along with some friends. While not everything I heard fit my definition of poetry, it was a Woodstock of words, images and rhythms that stayed with me for weeks. I got hooked. Now I am defending my title as 1997 Head-to-Head Haiku champ...
...know what it means," says Carl Bell, a University of Illinois psychiatry professor who has worked with troubled urban kids for two decades. "I've talked to seven-year-old kids who think when you're dead, you're just hanging out somewhere." And Paul Mones, a Portland, Ore., lawyer and a leading expert on young murderers, says, "Kids are naturally egocentric. Kids can be told they will go to hell, but they don't really think they'll go to hell. When kids lie about stealing a cookie, they don't feel bad like an adult...
...your report about pay-for-play on the radio [SHOW BUSINESS, Aug. 3], you gave a false impression of the Flip Records/Interscope band Limp Bizkit. Although in the spring of 1998 Flip/Interscope did have a pay-for-play contract with radio station KUFO of Portland, Ore., the arrangement didn't really have any long-term impact on Limp Bizkit's success. Before there was significant airplay from any radio station, including KUFO, Limp Bizkit's debut record, upon release in July 1997, landed on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and stayed there for more than 40 weeks; it will be gold...