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American shoppers, whose spending represents two-thirds of the U.S. economy, hold the key to what happens next. And data released last week were encouraging on that score. Most major retailers said sales surged in July, for the seventh straight gain this year. "Our customers are happy to pay $3,000 for a Chanel suit or $800 for a Prada bag," says Nancy Husted, a spokeswoman for Denver's Neiman Marcus store. In Washington the Federal Reserve found vigorous spending across the country on items from housing to air travel. Barbara Szosz, a North Carolina travel agent, reports that...
...footnote is threatening to swallow Clinton. Even if he stays in office--and it would be foolish to count him out--the scandal has ruined his Administration's crucial sixth year (typically a two-term President's last best hope for getting big things done) and perhaps his seventh and eighth as well. Clinton's bid to define his place in history--by launching the age of postdeficit politics with a small but activist domestic agenda--is all but over. Ken Starr is writing the legacy...
Album titles that sound like Zen koans are almost always a sign of musical vapidity (New Age alert!). But not here. On his seventh disc as a leader, this adventurous 27-year-old jazz pianist justifies the title's paradox with playing that is full of odd stops and starts and tonal shifts, all of which he negotiates with delicacy rather than flash. This is music that manages to be both prickly and soothing--like anxious lullabies (to suggest another unappetizing title). Though Keezer gives himself three solo numbers--a highlight being his gentle deconstruction of Lush Life--the heart...
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Son of a Son of a Sailor John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath Banana Wind William Styron A Tidewater Morning Floridays Irving Wallace The Twenty-Seventh Wife Don't Stop the Carnival Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You'll Go! You Had to Be There...
Although Parker noted that two crew members,Captain Wolfgang M. Moser '98 at sixth-seat andHenry G. Nuzum '99 at seventh-seat, were on thenational team last year, he credited the victoryto the dedication of the entire crew...