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Suddenly, El Nino doesn't seem so funny anymore. Last week one of the most powerful storms on record slammed into California, swamping the coast with 30-ft. waves, drenching the state with torrential rains and blasting it with near hurricane-force winds. Rail lines and major highways were cut by floodwaters up and down the coast, and hundreds of homes were destroyed. By week's end two more storms had struck and at least four people had been swept to their death by mudslides and raging waters. With another severe weather system bearing down on the coast--and ocean...
...book agent Lucianne Goldberg, Tripp reached for the On button. No one likes a snitch, especially one with so much to gain. So on Friday, Tripp explained, "I struggled long and hard... I was facing substantial risk of losing everything I have aspired to..." She went on to rail against "McCarthyistic" tactics, as if she were the one who had been taped and handed over to the FBI. Still, she couldn't resist adding juicy details--that some of the alleged calls were "volatile and contentious"--just in case anyone doubted she had more dirt to unload. She certainly...
...strike. But neither Australia nor the Netherlands would provide it; as for Canada, White House aides said, Jean Chrétien might soon indicate "an interest in supporting or participating." All in all, it's hardly a Gulf War-style coalition being built here. Meanwhile, Boris Yeltsin continues to rail against the United States' "unrealistic and dangerous" attempt to establish "world hegemony." And congressional leaders continue their own rhetorical journey into jingoism. If Clinton can negotiate his way out of this one, he'll surely deserve that Nobel Peace Prize...
...patterns of black and white, different everyday, which landed on my Long Island driveway. A real challenge it was to fill in the blanks, especially when I knew little Shakespeare and nothing of Ancient Greece. Like many fellow suburban teenagers, I began to take the train (Long Island Rail Road, LIRR) to the city (New York) on a routine basis for both leisure and work...
After all three teams in a second place tie inthe Ivies lost on Friday night, Harvard travelledto New Haven on Saturday looking for a rail ticketback to the upper echelons of the Ivy League...