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...last summer, Mabel and Rafael Valdes packed their two daughters and Mabel's grandmother into the family's Ford Explorer and headed down Highway I-75 for the 2-hr. drive from Coral Gables to Naples, Fla. But on the way, according to Mabel and her attorney, the tread tore loose--"like peeling a banana," says Mabel--from one of the Explorer's rear Firestone tires, causing the sport-utility vehicle to spin out of control, slam into a guardrail and flip over. The accident badly injured Valdes and her family and left her grandmother dead...
...Gore aide explained his man's nakedly opportunistic pounce on the Lone Star State's budgetary problems - a way to hit George W. Bush precisely where he lives by turning the governor's Texas record against him. In fact, Gore got so excited about this, he tore up his Washington-bound AF2 manifest and landed in San Antonio on Thursday. Forget the Alamo. Remember Boston Harbor...
...canon of modern architecture. An enormous, darkly lowering hulk of brick, it dominated the south bank of the Thames like a factory, which in fact it was. But more valuable buildings have been lost to economic boom and proactive aesthetics than were ever ruined by decay and indifference. Nobody tore down the Bankside Power Station because none could agree on a use for its site. It just lay there, an unloved, comatose and grimy princess, waiting for someone to kiss...
...stopped. But when the doors opened at New York City's downtown Tower Records store last Tuesday morning, a steady procession of people--very intelligent-looking adult people--headed to the racks, grabbed their copies of Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (Matador) and tore out of the store, desperate to get to the first music-playing implement they could lay their hands on. Soon the Belle and Sebastian websites, and there are dozens of them, were humming: "I've got it!" wrote one fan. "It's quite remarkable how beautiful it is. There...
Look out, New York: Hillary is on the attack. At a benefit breakfast Wednesday, the First Lady tore into Republican rival Rick Lazio, charging him with abandoning the interests of New York's women, children and families and falling prey to the gun lobby. After a stretch of relatively sedate (and occasionally downright cordial) campaigning since Lazio joined the race - replacing New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani - Clinton's vociferous assault took many observers by surprise. Why the sudden about-face...