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For 30 years, Jesse Helms has tormented liberals in the Senate. Now the buzz is getting louder in Washington and his home state of North Carolina that the 79-year-old ultraconservative will soon announce his plans to retire when his fifth term ends next year.
The buzz, interestingly enough, is coming primarily from Republicans who say all the signs point to Helms stepping down. His wife and children want him to retire; he suffers from a host of ailments, including the peripheral neuropathy that's forced him to navigate Capitol Hill in an electric scooter...
Meanwhile, Bush was satisfying his Republican shock troops in the West, and antagonizing greens, with this week's House approval of his plan to drill for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. So there was little cost in offering a nod to environmentalists in the East, and what more...
Fashion is a funny beast. Logic would dictate that in an industry obsessed with youth and trendiness, young designers would be the toast of the day and old hands would be as popular as great-aunts at Christmas. Guess again. Fashion eats its young. And the legends live on and...
But we're nice people, we Americans, with 225 years of optimism at our backs. So last Wednesday when M.J., after months of teasing and toying, of shedding 25 lbs. and of endless practices, finished the year's most journalist-packed golf game not involving Tiger Woods and said he...