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Harvard women's tennis Coach Gordon Graham would like to say the same thing. But with a 5-4 loss to Brown in Providence on Wednesday, life's been more like a sweet-potato pie: yucky...
...this time next year, vast new video services will be available, at a price, to millions of Americans in all 50 states. Next spring Hughes Communications will introduce DirecTv, a satellite system that delivers 150 channels of television through a $700 rooftop dish the size of a large pizza pie. At about the same time, Tele- Communications, Inc. (TCI), the world's biggest cable-TV operator, will begin marketing a new cable decoder that can deliver as many as 540 channels; next week it will announce plans to provide this service to 100 cities within the first year. Time Warner...
Accordingly, this meeting was presented as a sober working session, shorn of the pageantry that enveloped the old superpower summits. There was no state dinner, no glittering receptions, only six-plus hours devoted largely to pie charts and spreadsheets. Canadian newspapers were more witty than accurate in % describing it as an "alms race" -- not when the donors are reluctant to cross the starting line. But Topic A was the vexing and indispensable subject of American and other Western aid to Russia, complete with details of how much, when and for what projects. It might well be dubbed the "First...
Republicans must also take a different outlook on life. Media carping aside, the American culture rests on a positive, forward-looking value system. Optimism is as uniquely America as apple pie. We may grumble and ruminate about the way things are right now, and we may romanticize about days gone by, but we believe at our core that things well get better with time...
...gather "the kids," as Clinton refers to his thirtysomething gaggle of aides, and come up to the solarium for a party. By 11:30 p.m. Mrs. Clinton had said goodnight to Chelsea and joined the group. The carrot cake with cream-cheese frosting was all gone, and cherry pie had magically taken its place, like so much that happens in the White House. The President invited Begala to join him in the screening room for a movie, but in the interest of sleeping and getting packed for the road show that was to start in the morning, he declined...