Word: patly
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Give yourself a big pat on the back. You've made it; no matter how "crazy" or "stressed-out" your reading period and exam schedule has been, at 5:15 p.m. today, summer will officially begin...
ABORTION True believers don't believe Bush, and true believers vote. Gary Bauer, Dan Quayle, Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes will all speak to this constituency, arguing that while Bush is pro-life, he doesn't really mean it. He won't push for a constitutional amendment that bans abortions, and though he wants the procedure to be "rare"--a squishy phrase they'll remind audiences that Clinton has used--Bush has not made saving the unborn a priority while in office. That may change slightly in a few weeks if the Texas legislature passes a Bush proposal requiring doctors...
...Lamb, a film to be released next year. To create buzz for the movie, Brooks will release an album of greatest hits from Gaines' 15-year career. In fact, all the songs on the album are new. "We wrote songs to sound like they came from different periods," explains Pat Quigley, president of Capitol Records in Nashville, Tenn. "We have a Stevie Wonder period, a Babyface period." Still with us? Good, because when the film comes out, an entirely different set of Chris Gaines songs will be released as a sound-track album. Ah, if only the Padres...
...Pat Riley ran a well-tanned hand through his well-oiled hair and grimaced. Riley, the winningest coach in NBA play-off history, had been roundly criticized for overplaying his club in the weeks leading up to the post-season. He bagged the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, but at a price too high...
...been happier. "After the coverage we got for that," says an adviser, "I say boo us some more." Annoying ardent primary voters isn't necessarily the losing strategy that it appears to be. Dole is figuring that the folks who were booing were the ones who would vote for Pat Buchanan or Dan Quayle anyway, and so she's bucking the time-honored tradition of running to the right in the primaries and lurching back to the center in the general election. Her calculation involves some new math, based on the belief that her survival depends on drawing into...