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...Bolstered by a smattering of existentialism, Beat poetry and rock 'n' roll, Drew and plenty of teenagers like him justify what they do as a glorification of immediate pleasure over conventional restraint, a familiar theme from the '60s. For Drew, smoking copious quantities of pot confers membership in the select club of "the failures," people who were dealt a good hand of money, talent and support but who opt for a path of all-but-deliberate self-destruction...
...homes in the survey charged an average of $863. A TIME price survey found Amarillo's Boxwell Brothers funeral home, an independent, charged $185 for embalming, but Loewen's N.S. Griggs charged $425. "When the uninformed consumer walks through the door and it happens to be their misfortune to select a Loewen Group home, they're going to pay at least 15% more," says Don Flynn, a Canadian mortician and industry gadfly...
Micron Millenia Plus P200 Like Dell, Micron lets you select each component that goes into your computer. The $3,099 base price includes a 200-MHz Pentium chip, CD-ROM drive, sound card and three-year warranty...
Harvard was made for the morning person. Just look at class times. Many students must race out of bed to classes that meet before Regis and Kathie Lee hit the airwaves. Look at finals. Even if you carefully select a noon lecture, the sunrise lovers in the registrar's office may schedule the exam for that awful hour...
Meanwhile, over at the offices of the conservative Free Congress Foundation, a group of congressional staff members meet once a week to plot strategy for the next four years. Lately they have been talking about the need to set up quickly a Select Committee on Impeachment in the House. Their hopes hinge on scandal plus the all but inevitable recession. A lot of Republicans are hoping they don't have to do any rethinking at all. Maybe the best formula for the future of their party is just to do whatever makes Clinton's second term miserable, then sit back...