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...looking to repeat. So it may suit both sides now to simply continue making piecemeal agreements rather than trying to conclude a final deal, even if that leaves high and dry a U.S. president who's invested so much of his time and energy to this quest. The President used his swan song appearance before the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday to urge both sides to compromise and to warn that the opportunity for peace was fleeting. Perhaps. But it may be, in the end, that what is fleeting is the opportunity for a Clinton-authored peace...
...meantime, men will continue to mold themselves to fit the ideal of the moment. Witness Al Gore. In his quest to attract the women's vote, he has tried everything from empathy to aggression, sports jackets to polo shirts. Poor thing. By trying to look strong, he risks appearing weak--a mistake I made once myself. I'm wiser now. Whatever it is that women want in men, they'll want something different next year, with one exception. They'll always prefer guys who use deodorant...
...burn. "I realized it was a pretty sick thing to do," he says. That's when little Rick turned his attention to primates. "Because of King Kong, the gorilla was the perfect Hollywood monster. I really felt it was something that I could do. So I started on this quest at a very early age." And that's how Rick Baker ended up on his very own planet...
...quest to label the incident has been frustrating and clumsy. Jones is not another Rodney King, as some have suggested. For one thing, King was pursued for speeding. Jones was allegedly driving a stolen car, ramming bystanders and possibly firing at police. "There are more dissimilarities than similarities," says Laurie Levenson, a Loyola Law School professor. "With Rodney King, it was deliberate, coordinated and brutal." The Philadelphia cops, by contrast, "look disorganized and scared. It's sort of like everybody piling on in the schoolyard...
While the Barksdales were researching literacy programs in May 1999, a Jackson newspaper wrote about their quest. Richard Thompson, Mississippi's superintendent of education, read the article with keen interest. He needed money to expand a reading program that had shown success in some of the state's schools. He called the Barksdales...