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...statistics that emerge from the frequent medical probings of the presidential physique suggest robust health. The greater question is, How does Bush really feel? Energy level and mood, which are not on the charts, are as important as blood pressure. John Kennedy's nagging backache surely encouraged his dark and fatal mood in the grim summer of 1961 and made him think a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union lay ahead. Lyndon Johnson's downer after his gall-bladder operation may have resigned him to war in Vietnam. Actually, Bush confesses a few tiny signs of his age -- but mighty...
...been more distinctively New Yorkish than the show gloriously revived at the Beck, Guys and Dolls, a self-proclaimed "fable" that romanticizes * hoods and hustlers, touts and troublemakers, into cuddlesome comic delights. It turns mean streets, back alleys, even subway tunnels into twinkly urban oases of robust energy and delight...
...bill for unity must be paid. The best way to pay it would be for Germany to remain the industrial powerhouse of Europe, and that means workers willing to sacrifice for unity now as they did for recovery in the past. A robust, expanding economy can absorb the costs; a stricken, shrinking one cannot...
...year, this doesn't feel much like a recovery -- though many economists warn that this may be as good as it's going to get. Unemployment remains stubbornly high; the jobless rate continues to hover at 7.3%, a six-year peak, and experts say it will take a more robust rate of growth to make a dent in that figure. Typical recoveries since World War II have boasted growth rates of 5% and sometimes higher; by contrast, the current 2% rate is paltry, and unlikely to improve soon. Michael Boskin, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, last...
...PLACE IS CHOCKABLOCK with fountains, almost all of them officially described as new-age outdoor-air-conditioning systems. Water gushes and gurgles almost everywhere. Architect Nicholas Grimshaw's pavilion for the United Kingdom, a fine, robust example of the high-tech style at which the British excel, is the grandest, sleekest Expo aquatecture of all: the whole plate-glass facade, 60 ft. high and 235 ft. long, is a waterfall. A lovely, quirkier glass-wall waterfall, the work of the New York architecture firm SITE, defines a promenade along one of the Expo avenues. For almost a quarter- mile...