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...President stays glued to his denials. That leaves the White House staff divided into three camps, united only by their lack of certainty about what Clinton did and what he intends to say about what he did. There are the rough-and-ready, "he's innocent" loyalists, who stick to their guns because they are too honorable to desert the boss, or they believe nothing happened because "he told me so." Among them are some of Clinton's newest aides, whose need to believe him borders on the spiritual. There is the middle group of longer-standing advisers who fear...
...share nifty bits of geography and history. ("In the late '30s, Henry Ford...constructed a picture-perfect replica of a Michigan town to house 10,000 rubber workers" in the Amazonian jungle. "It didn't catch on.") He has a gift for equatorial observation but doesn't like to rough it. He wants his adventures to come with a four-star hotel and perhaps a chilled bottle of Puligny-Montrachet at day's end. (Jane, the practical one, does all the booking.) He writes about the Caribbean custom of doing as one pleases, then asking "forgiveness, not permission," but when...
...mountainous, isolated, populated predominantly by Tibetans and other non-Chinese ethnic minorities clinging determinedly to their traditions on their red-brown earth--have been relatively late in embracing tourism. Stretches of the area are closed to foreign travelers. Zhongdian, the town which I am currently exploring, still has a rough-hewn, construction-made frontier feel, and Degen was opened up to foreigners less than a year ago. Through the long days of riding rickety minibuses whose doors are kept shut with screwdrivers, my excitement would rise with the knowledge that I probably wouldn't see another foreigner until I arrived...
...After a rough decade in the '80s, the man who wrote the Theme from Shaft! has been rediscovered as Chef! ISAAC HAYES has found a whole new group of fans as the voice of the world's smoothest school-canteen worker on the cartoon South Park. But along with that newfound popularity comes attention from those Hayes might not want to encourage. A court in Georgia has ordered that Hayes pay an old debt of nearly $90,000, plus interest. The order was originally obtained in 1989, but the creditor knew Hayes' career was in a slump and didn...
Civility and fairness in the political world are not concepts to be sneezed at. Case in point: Massachusetts teachers and teachers-in-training have been having a rough time of it lately. First, the facts. Three weeks ago it was announced that nearly two-thirds of teaching candidates had failed a newly required competency exam. In the aftermath of that announcement, politicians had a field day, rushing to judgment on the test-takers and their college teachers. House Speaker Tom Finneran (D-Mattapan) denounced the test-takers as "idiots" and proclaimed college diplomas worth nothing more than a "used Kleenex...