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...have felt on top of the world last week after sweeping the last coast-to-coast crazy quilt of six state primaries. The Arkansas Governor eliminated Jerry Brown by winning 48% to 40% in his home state of California, and consequently clinched the Democratic nomination with 366 delegates to spare. Then why was this ordinarily almost cockeyed optimist forcing his victory smile as lamely as a first-time sushi eater? In crucial California, at least, the reason was a climactic revolt against politics as usual that rewarded not Clinton so much as outsider Ross Perot and, to a historic extent...
...Joshua Judges Ruth, the weirdness is harder to laugh off. The lyrics are gaunt and elusive, the melodies so familiar as to be generic, the arrangements as spare and naked as the sentiments. The album's intertwined themes are keyed in its title: three books from the Old Testament -- the all-time best seller of wrath and reconciliation -- that pun on a man's need to pass stern judgment on women...
...spare time, Thomas will be producing a film version of Zora's Kitchen, a mystery-thriller-farce-revenge tragedy written by his friend Orion Ross '92. He also plans to writea book about Lucille Hart, a wonderful woman from rural Oregon who disguised herself as a man for 40 years. And then there's Paulo...
Vanderbilt is now self-employed in Ketchum, Idaho, developing trail systems for the U.S. Forest Service. In his spare time, he says, "We do a lot of things, like running rivers or climbing mountains...
Taylor is sympathetic to the students. The problem, he says, is not ill- prepared doctors but professors trying to cram an explosion of medical knowledge into a fixed four-year program of study. His prescription: "If we add anything further to the medical curriculum, let it be spare time...