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...turns out it's nearly as common as, for instance, remembering the sacrifice of America's veterans. The half dozen Fourth of July columns that celebrate John Hart all sound exactly the same. Reform Party presidential candidate and conservative scribe Patrick Buchanan, on July 4, 1994: "Disaster struck 'Honest John' Hart first. Just months after he signed, British and Hessian troops invaded New Jersey, forcing him and his family to flee.... By the spring of 1779, John Hart was dead." Paul M. Morrill in the San Diego Union-Tribune on July 4, 1985: "John Hart of New Jersey signed...
Daniel Okrent's operatic lament "Twilight of the Baby Boomers" [LIVING, June 12] struck us as far too pessimistic. Amid all those grim statistics, fear and loathing and laments over a future of Metamucil bingeing, Okrent left out one significant factor: baby-boomer women in their 40s and 50s say, in study after study, that they have never felt more self-confident or been happier. Women of this generation, who have redefined so much, are redefining middle age and exulting in the options and opportunities they now have. Sorry, but they are not miserable. And, yes, they remember...
...Bronfman Jr. and the entire Bronfman family, which owns nearly 25% of Seagram. Bronfman has had to endure endless Hollywood brickbats since his father tapped him for the top job in 1994. Outsiders ridiculed the Bronfman scion, who writes pop songs under the pseudonym Junior Miles, as a star-struck dilettante when he jettisoned Seagram's lucrative 24.2% stake in DuPont and used the proceeds to buy Universal. It didn't help that DuPont stock promptly doubled, as Seagram's own shares sparkled less than flat Champagne. Yet Bronfman stubbornly stuck to his show-biz guns. He shelled...
...distrust of the fame machine. But it's an easy one to take too far. In fact, most of us don't want to, in Gabler's words, "get to the other side of the glass," not this way. That's partly why we goggle at these shows, dumb struck...
...ZANU-PF did best in the countryside, where it?s demagoguery over land-reform struck a deep chord among section of the rural poor. But the party was roundly trounced in the urban areas (and even many rural constituencies) where voters viewed the government's sudden interest in "redistributing" white farms as a cynical attempt at exploiting rural misery to deflect attention from its own legacy of corruption, catastrophic economic mismanagement, military misadventures and violent suppression of dissent...