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...never too early to plan for those retirement years, and GEORGE BUSH seems to be taking that maxim to heart. The President has quietly bought a lot in suburban Houston, taking advantage of the soft Texas real estate market to find a spot to build a post-presidency residence that's close to his old ! friends in the oil industry. The Bushes will spend eight months of the year there while continuing to pass the summer season in Kennebunkport...
...uplink -- a purchase that was scheduled to occur the day he quit the church. Gorman contends he could have brought the plan off but for Swaggart's accusations. Instead his TV ministry went bankrupt in 1987, and he left the airwaves. His new church, the Metropolitan Christian Centre in suburban Metairie, La., has 450 congregants, and Gorman returned to the airwaves this month on a New Orleans UHF station. But his dream of a Texas-to-Alabama regional network has been dashed, and his debt exceeds $5 million...
...lack of entree at elite courses may contribute to golf's lack of astonishing black role models, a la Michael Jordan -- except, perhaps, for Jordan himself, an eager amateur who joined the Wynstone Club in suburban Chicago because it offers color-blind corporate memberships. Only four of the P.G.A.'s 240 touring pros are black -- and just 25 of the 20,000 country-club pros. The sport's one faint hope for minority recruitment is the Atlanta-based Calvin Peete National Minority Golf Foundation. Set up in 1989 to award scholarships to promising blacks discovered on public courses...
...French. Surprisingly, residents of foreign origin constitute no greater a share of the population today -- 6.3% -- than they did in 1931. The novelty is the highly visible intrusion of non-Europeans, largely Muslims, and their practices: schoolgirls wearing the chador, the electronically amplified wails of muezzins from mosques, suburban concrete ghettos where the culture smacks of Algiers or Tunis more than Paris or Lyons...
Another problem that drove IBM and Apple into each other's arms is their growing friction with some powerful partners, most notably Microsoft, the suburban Seattle software giant run by wunderkind billionaire William Gates III. Microsoft was the creator of MS-DOS, the software that runs the IBM PC, but the two companies have had a falling out over the next generation, called OS/2, which runs IBM's line of PS/2 computers. Microsoft developed OS/2 as well, but IBM believes the software company has undermined sales of that software by pushing a highly successful program called Windows 3.0, which enables...