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...party party party boy," brought her modest renown, mostly in her native Canada and mostly (one presumes) among people there who don't read lyric sheets. After her uninspired 1992 follow-up, Now Is the Time, which included a wistful song about standing in the rain outside a Rod Stewart concert, her career stalled. But Morissette's third album, Jagged Little Pill (1995), her first for Madonna's Maverick records, was her breakthrough. On it she no longer portrayed herself as a peppy pop princess but as a brash young woman with demands, demons--and desires. This new Morissette craved...
...science department at Carleton College, puts Ventura in the emerging populist tradition of Minnesota, a state that in 1992 gave 24% of its vote to Reform Party founder Ross Perot and in this decade has elected populists of both the left and the right--Democrat Paul Wellstone and Republican Rod Grams--to the U.S. Senate. Ventura's campaign slogan--"Retaliate in '98"--fits the tradition...
Scott M. Jezak, the Speedway's marketing director, explains that not every night is amateur night. "The International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) is the sanctioning body, and we have world class racing here. A lot of the pros come here. We set a lot of world records this year. We reset the top fuel dragster record." Things get a little a hairier those nights, "the cars get up to 300 miles per hour and sometimes we have fire problems explosions, but everyone's wearing fire suits and helmets." Evidently, that's what the crowds like to see; often upwards...
...global downward spiral "should serve as a lightning rod to world policymakers--yet it really hasn't," complains Roach. But what can they do? The International Monetary Fund has exhausted its ability to keep acting as a global lender of last resort, in large measure because the U.S. Congress has failed to pass appropriations to refill its coffers. President Clinton has asked Greenspan and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to set up a meeting with their counterparts in 22 countries, stirring some hopeful talk of a coordinated cut in global interest rates. But Greenspan promptly denied that any such move...
...large copper disc on the end of a long metal rod is used to make the ingredients for a Persian-style cream puff. A row of small cookie cutters forms the uncommonly shaped chickpea flour cookies...