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...arrived at my last of a string of interviews dragging my feet. I had almost canceled but decided that I might as well give it a go. If nothing else, it would be good practice. As I schlepped up the front stairs of the State House, I plastered on my interview smile and tried to think positively...
...Hawaii unappealing and very quickly made her way to her mother. She won a partial scholarship to an art school in Michigan, and after graduating, she sang on street corners to raise train fare to rejoin her mother, who had moved to San Diego. There Jewel worked in a string of dead-end jobs. When mother and daughter ran out of money, they moved from Carroll's tiny apartment and lived in Jewel's Volkswagen van. Her mother bought her own van, and the two often parked side by side. They used the lavatories at the local K Mart...
...wrong for their countries. The discussion has only begun, and Administration officials say they are amazed at how the foreign policy elite in the U.S. has coalesced in opposition to expansion. Skepticism is showing up in Congress as well, where 20 Senators sent Clinton a letter asking a string of questions about the wisdom of letting the East Europeans into the NATO club. They were joined by a group of 50 other notables--retired Senators, military officers, ambassadors and arms-control experts--who signed another letter asking the President to halt before making "a policy error of historic proportions...
WASHINGTON: John Rowley's resignation as the lead counselor for the House panel investigating alleged fund-raising irregularities at the DNC and the 1996 election is the latest in a string of setbacks which threaten tear the probe apart. But while the investigation is not quite dead in the water, TIME's Viveca Novak says this latest feud clearly sinks the panel deeper into the quagmire. "You had Dan Burton saying at one point he wanted to start hearings in late July, but Rowley's resignation makes that increasingly unlikely. And questions still linger about Burton himself. The Justice Department...
FACETIOUSNESS. Jokiness is the current handmaiden of brutality. Violent death provides the punch line for the two-hour string of gags that is the modern action movie. And when the stars aren't killing off the supporting players, they are cracking wise--lamely. All right, nobody goes to hear an action movie, but the verbal humor in The Lost World didn't have to be so stilted. In Con Air and Batman & Robin the lines have the rhythm of wit but not the content; they are their own rim shots...