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...Brien understands the appeal of his story, its picaresque narrative spiked with trial and error, with mishap and misstep, with personal suffering and extraordinary triumph. He calls it his "rags-to-riches" tale, but having happily embarked on the riches phase, he politely wishes that everyone else would please just move on too. The decathlete is tired of what has become his 11th event, talking about his previous failings--the way he mysteriously flubbed the pole vault in the 1992 Olympic trials, thereby blowing his star turn in Barcelona; the way his college partying sometimes got the best...
...Olympics and then the major-party conventions for airtime and oxygen. And when voters do take a look, just about everyone will find something to be offended by. Old folks will be reminded of his remark about their "duty to die"; veterans will learn that he wants to phase out some of their hospitals; immigrants that he wants to close the borders and slice legal immigration at least in half. Diane Dillingham, a longtime G.O.P. activist but Lamm admirer in Denver, thinks his suck-a-lemon style won't have much appeal. "The average voter doesn't want to hear...
...happening. Motown Cafe, the Official All Star Cafe, Harley Davidson Cafe, Country Star, Rain Forest Cafe and Dive! are all out to sate the public hunger for theme dining. These multimedia spectaculars, designed to stimulate every sensory-nerve end--possibly even the palate--are undergoing a second, rapid phase of growth some 25 years after the first Hard Rock Cafe opened its doors in London with Eric Clapton's guitar on the wall and American burgers on the menu...
...forma encouragement. An initial mailing sent to Reform supporters last week lists only Perot and Lamm as "most frequently mentioned'' prospects (voters can write in others). Further, Perot has promised not to use his fortune to promote his own prospects between now and the time his party's two-phase convention begins...
...bottom before it lets the airline fly again," says TIME's Jerry Hannifin. FAA spokesperson Henry Price says only that, "The FAA outlined a number of things it found unacceptable and is reviewing ValuJet's plan." ValuJet, on the other hand, says that the airline is in the second phase of a three-part FAA plan to reinstate its license. A key component: moving from contract maintenance crews to full-time employees supervised by a newly-appointed senior vice president. ValuJet would be allowed to fly up to 15 of its 51 planes to start, although a schedule for full...