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After months of light jabs, billionaire gadfly Ross Perot threw a wild, roundhouse punch last week, suggesting Bill Clinton is unqualified for high office and stating that he "wouldn't consider giving him a job anywhere above middle management." While Perot's characterization seems severe, the criticism about Clinton's administrative skills is echoed in private by some of his closest associates and colleagues. Said one, to whom Clinton turned last week for late-night advice: "His management style . . . just doesn't work at this level of government...
...scoreboard read 10-10. Punch for punch, knockdown for knockdown, Virginia and Harvard had stayed with each other for the entire game like two heavyweights: bobbing, weaving and trading hits...
...BOTTOM LINE: She's not just a theme park or a punch line for bosom jokes; she's a singer-songwriter in peak form...
DOLLY PARTON WAS GETTING TO be one of those eternal celebrities, a familiar twinkle in the collective mind. At 47, she is still enough of a cultural touchstone to be of use to comedians when they need the punch line to a bosom joke. She might do a movie or a guest spot on Leno. But mostly, she's been a stately float in the Icon Parade -- the 50-tooth smile encased in antebellum shady-lady couture and a platinum hayloft of hair. Should we expect more of the only woman to have a theme park (Dollywood) named...
...directly to your television set or computer screen. A movie? Airline listings? Tomorrow's newspaper or yesterday's episode of Northern Exposure? How about a new magazine or book? A stroll through the L.L. Bean catalog? A teleconference with your boss? A video phone call with your lover? Just punch up what you want, and it appears just when you want...