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Hence his national-service program, an echo of the G.I. Bill, aimed at working kids, who would repay their schooling with community service. Hence the crime bill he fought desperately to save, a $30 billion potpourri of prisons and cops, of therapists and social workers turned loose on the ordinary American's No. 1 nightmare: crime. Hence the piece de resistance of Clinton's activist vision: health care "that cannot be taken away." It addresses the quintessential middle-class fear: losing what...
...American Repertory Theatre's production of Henry IV, Part Two--inspired somewhat by Gus Van Sant's "My Own Private Idaho"--paints a timeless landscape for Shakespeare's original play; it collapses then and now with witty juxtapositions of different moments of history. This potpourri of costumes (Gabrielle Berry), props and motifs is no more unusual than performing a play in the late 20th century, which was written in the late 16th and set in the late 14th. And though this odd, albeit very effective, hodge podge of disparate time periods creates a certain ahistoricity, it succeeds remarkably...
...faint smell of potpourri and the sounds of trucks and street musicians outside diminished as I tuned into the friendly banter between customers and the man at the cash register...
...scattered piles of documents; next to it the matching beige credenza is buried under small mountains of loose letters, memos and newspaper clips. Even the floors are littered with the stuff. But if the co-founder and chief executive of computer-software powerhouse Microsoft has his way, this pulp potpourri will soon recede. "I don't want to get rid of all paper," says Gates in his Redmond, Washington, headquarters. "I just don't think we should proliferate it by passing it around...
...ingredients in small containers (in the early days Roddick used the cheapest ones around, plastic urine-sample jars). But from the start she showed an uncanny flair for marketing. She had an eye for the right location -- well-traveled streets catering to mildly bohemian crowds. She hung sweet- smelling potpourri in her shops to attract trade and laid trails of perfume on the sidewalks leading to her door. And she moved quickly into franchising -- carefully vetting would-be franchisees with such offbeat questions as "What is your favorite flower?" and "How would you like...