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Taps, a relatively new dance troop specializing in--you guessed it--tap dancing joined the troupe for this performance and was equally enchanting. The feet were fast, the click of the shoes faster and the audience the fastest of all to acknowledge their skill. And alas! those darn toothy smiles! These dancers all looked like they were actually having fun gyrating on the stage, an exceedingly far cry from the tense grimaces otherwise normal people might display if forced to dance the Macarena at a spring formal. And those smiles made all the difference...
...Serbia are fighting very different wars. While NATO was attempting to grind down Belgrade's air defenses, Milosevic was fighting the only war he really cares about. He refused to fire spasms of SAMs into the swarming skies over Yugoslavia. That kept NATO's low-and-slow tank- and troop-killing warplanes away and confined vaunted alliance firepower to Everest-high altitudes. In Belgrade government officials chortled that the damage to their air-defense systems was "minimal" despite a NATO expenditure of "230 grams of high explosives per head" of every Yugoslav. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia's well-armed infantry stormed through...
...DeLay tried to frame the debate as a choice between relativism and absolute truths, but there were subtler arguments advanced by both sides. Smart virtuecrats like Bill Bennett argued that a leader who occasionally drank in the evenings was not impeachable, but one who drank before deciding on troop deployments maybe was. White House officials agonized in private over which was worse: that Clinton lied to them or that he failed to apologize for it. Censure ultimately died, in part because Senators decided that enough damage had been done to the President without adding any to the Constitution...
Village Homes' success has attracted admirers from near and far. Architects and landscape-architecture students still troop through regularly, and Japanese tourists are frequent visitors. "They're always trying to find what the latest thing in the world is, so they can capitalize on it," says Corbett with a laugh. The late French President Francois Mitterrand and former First Lady Rosalyn Carter have taken tours...
...Danielle explains to other kids the range of potential Y2K problems. (The one they like hearing about the most is the collapse of the school system, the IRS of childhood.) But her parents have had trouble winning over community leaders. When Diane asked to address the local Girl Scout troop, she was turned down by a scout leader who was worried that Diane would alarm the girls. "Scouts prepare for emergencies lasting 72 hours," says Diane. "We just want to extend that to six months." And if the year 2000 arrives and civilization doesn't fall to pieces? She laughs...