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...bright and without clouds, the mountains flecked with snow, and mist hangs over the lifeless Great Salt Lake. In this old railroad town near Salt Lake City, the land of Latter-Day Saints has provided a curious backdrop for a latter-day carnival. The Lollapalooza tour -- a festival of determinedly edgy alternative music featuring ethnic food, political forums and 12 bands, including rappers Arrested Development and female grunge rockers Babes in Toyland -- has pulled into clean-living Utah...
...does one decipher the moral calculus of terror? In August 1980 a bomb blew up in the railroad terminal of Bologna, killing 85 people and injuring 200. Nothing was fully proved; no one was ever punished. So no one will ever know what agenda that atrocity served or whether it achieved anything for the murderers. Last week another bomb went off, next to the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence's principal museum. A stolen Fiat van packed with explosives blew up in the middle of the night next to the museum's west wing. The fireball and blast killed five people...
...THROWING A CURVE INTO TRAIN TRAVel -- a more than 100-m.p.h. curve. The national rail service's new X2000 high-speed train began operating on the Washington-New York Metroliner route. The X2000 can go up to 155 m.p.h., but until it gets speed clearance from the Federal Railroad Administration, it will operate at the normal Metroliner maximum speed of 125 m.p.h. Still, it goes from D.C. to N.Y.C. in 2 hr. 40 min. -- 15 min. faster than conventional trains. Its secret: a hydraulic tilting system that helps it take curves 40% faster...
...seems hard to find someone in Los Angeles who is not running for mayor. Among the 52 candidates who have filed for the race -- apparently the largest number in the city's history -- are a bus driver, a banker, two millionaires, a disabled veteran, a railroad worker, a retired policeman, a plumber and an actor-tax preparer. The leading contenders include city councilman Mike Woo, state assemblyman Richard Katz and lawyer Richard Riordan. The biggest problem: fitting all the names on the ballot, which comes in seven languages...
...support of Nunn, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Nunn, who is a close confidant of General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, often seems to believe that all military matters are best disposed by him and that anything else is an attempt to railroad the Pentagon bureaucracy. But Clinton tapped Aspin to deal with Nunn in part because relations between the Senator and the President have never been great. The ( White House has not forgotten Nunn's lukewarm effort on behalf of Clinton during the Georgia primary last year, nor his sudden disappearance from...