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Speaking of Times Square, don't rule it out. Rock-'n'-oldster Dick Clark, who will turn 70 in 1999, plans to be on hand, reporting the action for television audiences. "That would be nice," he says. "It would indicate I'm still ambulatory." Tama Starr, president of Artkraft Strauss, the company that has been building and lowering the New Year's Eve ball in Times Square since 1908, promises that the millennium ball will be bigger and brighter and more spectacular than ever. "There will be more strobe lights and maybe a hologram," she says. "Lots of dazzle...
Long before the U.S. lost its trade balance, it was lopsided with intellectual goods from Europe. Marx, Freud, Sartre and Levi-Strauss were required cribbing. Books translated from the French and German were best sellers and their authors culture heroes. So were their interpreters. As a critic and novelist, Susan Sontag handled European ideas and forms with brilliance and style. The camera loved her dark good looks, and she became an American knockoff of the Continental intellectual as gravely seductive celebrity. The brain, she said on at least one occasion, is an erogenous zone...
...ahead of her country's other gymnasts that finding training partners has been a problem. "There was a year when I trained alone," says Hungary's Henrietta Onodi. "It was terrible." Her isolated, gutsy quest has won international renown. "She's got the hearts of everybody," says Donna Strauss, a U.S. coach...
According to documents obtained by The Crimson, the committee studied five corporations that offer health care benefits to their employees' domestic partners: Levi Strauss, Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., Lotus Development Corp., the City of Berkeley, Calif. and the City of Seattle...
...Ambassador to Moscow ROBERT STRAUSS has jumped into a dispute over Russian-built Kamov and Mil helicopters, by lobbying the Bush Administration on their behalf. The powerful Russian choppers can outlift the best U.S. helicopters and are being offered to American oil and logging firms at half price. U.S. manufacturers are livid because Strauss wants the FAA to waive the costly and time-consuming U.S. commercial-certification process for the Russian competition. If the FAA goes along with Strauss, the heavy lifters may start hauling timber in Alaska this summer...