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...designed to budge the ruling junta, kicks in at midnight, and about half the 8,000 Americans in Haiti are expected to leave the country. But even as the deadline approached, virtually everyone took time out to watch local favorites Cameroon and Brazil face off. "This place is a powder keg, and it could go off at any minute," TIME correspondent Cathy Booth says from Haiti. "But there's one thing everyone has in common -- they're all soccer fanatics...
More than half a dozen other players appear far less eager. Former drug czar and best-selling author Bill Bennett would like to be President but would probably take a pass if Kemp gets in. Former Secretary of State Baker has told allies to keep their powder dry, and is believed to be waiting to see what his old pal Cheney does. Pete Wilson, currently seeking re-election as California Governor, has ruled out a race, but could be formidable if re-elected. A host of other Governors -- Massachusetts' Bill Weld and South Carolina's Carroll Campbell, for example...
...unexpected U.S. triumphs left Austrian and Swiss favorites floundering in the powder. The two powerhouse Alpine nations, where World Cup races are routinely televised and schuss stars are celebrities, had dominated Olympic skiing for decades. Yet last week a Norwegian (the dynamic Kjetil Andre Aamodt) and a Canadian (the surprising Ed Podivinsky) won silver and bronze medals in downhill after Moe, while a Russian, Svetlana Gladischeva, edged Italian Isolde Kostner for silver in the women's super-G. In the men's super- G, Markus Wasmeier, a Bavarian who likes to play Mozart on his zither, won the gold, beating...
...intimacy with the listener: it is an acute, astute cauterization of the wounds of the spirit. I'm Alive is a duel between edgy resignation, of loving and hurtful recollection, and a cautionary wisdom that comes fresh from a skirmish on the front lines. You can almost feel the powder burn when in My Problem Is You Browne sings, "I wanted to live in the realm of the senses/ You've got to know how/ And for some kinds of pleasure there are no defenses/ I know that...
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