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...Unfortunately," says Phaeton's therapist, "the mythic side of man is given short shrift these days. He can no longer create fables." A professor of performance studies at Northwestern University, Zimmerman, 41, has been creating stage fables for years from her base in Chicago, just off the radar screen of the East Coast tastemakers...
...controversy is just about the highest emotion generated by the royal family. They don't inspire wrath; nor do they elicit much warmth. "They live in a different world," says 25-year-old housewife Mayumi Masuoka. "How could this possibly have any significant impact?" If they're off the radar screens of most Japanese, that's intentional. The royals have studiously avoided the spotlight and maintained a deliberate distance ever since the end of World War II. They aren't jet-setting royals who play on the beaches of the Riviera or date dashing polo players. They don't have...
...declaring it was one thing; getting it done was another. It took a delicate, below-the-radar diplomatic mission by Lott to end the stalemate. House and Senate negotiators were getting nowhere on settling the crucial question of whether to put 28,000 new federal workers in charge of screening passengers and baggage, in place of the private contractors who have bungled the job so often. The Democratic-run Senate had voted yes, 100 to 0, but House Republican leaders were adamantly opposed to so large an expansion of the federal work force. Lott, who voted for the Senate bill...
MOLES Technologies, such as ground-penetrating radar and acoustics, that detect, locate and map underground or concealed cavities in which terrorists could hide...
...this marketing strategy that catapulted O.J. books in 1995, Princess Diana books in 1998, Clinton books in 1999-2000 and “stolen election” books in early 2001, up the best-seller lists. That such books tended to slip quickly from the public’s radar was hardly reason for concern. Presumably, there would be another event coming along soon enough, one that could be dealt with in an identical marketing fashion. The market would be continuously supplied with new firepower, and the bestsellers would peacefully bequeath their crowns...