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...figures left economists underwhelmed. After a weak first quarter, some worried, the nation might slip back into a recession. Most economists, however, blamed the slowdown on the snow and rainstorms that battered the South, West and Northeast during February and March. Still, the Administration can expect more bad news, says an influential group of chief executives. In its first report card on the Clinton Administration, the Business Council predicted sluggish growth ahead due to the continuing downturn in Europe and other markets...
Hillary had her own perilous journey as she sat for over two weeks watching her father -- the gruff, authoritarian and inspiring Hugh Rodham -- slowly slip away. She comes from a family so bizarrely intact that the whole group went on the Clintons' honeymoon to Acapulco. The extended family had dinner together most weekends and played marathon games of Trivial Pursuit and Hungarian rummy, a card game so byzantine in its bylaws that only close friends or relatives can participate...
Before they slip into tabloid history, take a parting glance at Illinois' David and Sharon Schoo. Last year they were the World's Worst Parents, deserting their daughters for a Mexican vacation. On Monday the Schoos were sentenced to community service and 30 days of virtual house arrest, leaving the couple themselves "home alone...
...seems to be the season for savvy playwrights to slip. Neil Simon's musical adaptation of his The Goodbye Girl left out the good parts, David Hwang's Face Value closed in preview, and now Lanford Wilson (Talley's Folly, Burn This) has opened REDWOOD CURTAIN, a would-be poetic musing on ecology, Vietnam, capitalism and multicultural heritage. If you think something is deeply sick in the national soul, then the play, for all its philosophical incoherence and melodrama (about a Vietnamese immigrant seeking her ex-G.I. father), may speak to you. If you live in the world most...
...error. Something that, up against deadline, we overlooked. A failure to communicate between a reporter and an editor. A whole team that's out at a party and can't be reached. If I'm sick with the flu and Tarek has three big papers due, quality control will slip a little...