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Harvard lost to Columbia and still made the tournament with plenty of room to spare...
...doesn't want to blow up the Education Department and padlock the I.R.S. He wants to spend a trillion dollars of the surplus to let people invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market, yet he promises not to cut benefits, although there would be no spare trillion lying around to fund them. He blasts Gore for proposing more new spending than at any time since the Great Society--except that he is doing the same...
...worry, not only because I soon will have a teenager of my own to contend with (and, frankly, I can't spare any dinner plates), but also because a new study suggests that today's parents are as clueless as my parents were about what teens really think...
...Jones, of course, milks it for all it's worth, the whole thing made doubly poignant by his own history with Jack Daniels and friends. His voice has, even for him, an unusual sense of hopelessness, aided, as usual, by exquisite phrasing and emphasis. The spare backing, orchestrated by his discoverer and first producer, Pappy Daily, opens with a lone, lonely fiddle, but is otherwise somewhat jaunty, which serves to highlight the plight of the couple involved...
...prevailing climate of this collection is one of spare, sharp lines, big graphics and crisp edges. John loves Irving Penn, whose work looks clean and sober even when his subject was a New Guinea tribesman caked in ceremonial mud. He loves Robert Mapplethorpe, but without the whips and chains, which means the Mapplethorpe of laser-cut male torsos and tulips that loom before you like stage-lit pachyderms. These pictures were not collected by the inebriated stage floozy we used to know and love. They bear the mark of the studious Sir Elton John, a man buying things...