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Bill Clinton's advisers profess to be unconcerned that Kemp's arrival will turn the Dole campaign into a serious threat. While Dole and Kemp were performing their delicate courtship, the Clintons departed for a vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where the President will spend this week feigning indifference to the Republican hoopla in San Diego. And Kemp? "We'll kill him on his economic ideas," says a White House strategist. The Clinton campaign was already running TV spots last week blasting Dole's Kemp-flavored tax-cut ideas as a "risky, last-minute scheme that would balloon the deficit...
...being exhumed. Hundreds have been dug up, many with their wrists wired together, their bones shattered by bullets. An indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague says Karadzic's crimes are of "almost unparalleled cruelty." He denies the charges, and his Serb compatriots profess to believe him. His support by Bosnian Serbs remains close to the 68% approval rating found in a poll two months ago by the U.S. Information Agency...
...ranks of the big-time preachers: 114,000 people, the largest numbers of his career. But the response in Sydney could actually be more significant. The crowds may be modest, but over three days, 1,555 out of 25,000 who attended have answered the invitation, coming forward to profess their relationship with the risen Christ. The actual ratio is 6.1%, a better record than Billy's over three previous Australian swings. And over 80% of those responding are under age 25. They are the future of arena revivals, the harvest of souls still waiting to be taken...
...what to do? I don't profess to know an answer. I'm half-heartedly tempted to say something ridiculous along the lines of we need to learn how to respect ourselves, to have integrity, and to respect other people, but I know that's a crock of shit. The Information Revolution, like the Industrial Revolution, can't be stopped; romantics wishing for a time of ribbon-tied letter-boxes are as stupid, and as besides the point, as those wishing for an era before factories...
What remains to be sorted out is how all this will affect the automobile business as a whole. Dealers in both new and used cars will probably flourish alongside the superstores, while independent operators who sell only secondhand cars will find the new entries deadly competition. Automakers, meanwhile, profess to see rosy possibilities in the change. Says Yale Gieszel, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A: "I don't think you'll see a decline in the number of Toyota dealers in the next five years." Still, it is comforting to believe someone could actually want...