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Nike is banking on a new line known as Alpha to turn the U.S. business around starting late this year. A coordinated line of shoes, apparel and equipment (including watches and eyewear), Alpha represents a tripling of its R.-and-D. investment since 1995. In shoes, Nike is spreading air around, moving the cushioning from the heel through the midsole. It promises a form-fitting heel, more flexibility and reduced weight of shoes in all the categories...
...apparel, Nike is attempting to turn sweatshirts and shorts into real athletic equipment that it calls "total performance product." Its fabric is skinlike, a point being made by a series of ads that feature pictures of such star athletes as Michael Johnson, Scotty Pippin and Gabrielle Reece wearing not so much as a sock...
...Commandments (Knopf; 96 pages; $21) is the finest of the three volumes, a reputation-making wonder that isn't just the year's best book of poems but may also turn out to be the year's best book. Poised, architectural and built to last in the effortlessly disciplined tradition of W.H. Auden and Robert Lowell, the poems also have a sharp confessional kick worthy of Anne Sexton at her most bruising. In "My Mammogram," McClatchy, 52 (editor of the Yale Review and author of the libretto for Emmeline, a new opera by Tobias Picker that opens next week...
President Clinton expresses emotion in many ways--the set of his jaw, the bite of his lip--but when he feels something strongly, what he does more than anything else is turn...
WASHINGTON: The speed and efficiency with which the White House released letters that put Kathleen Willey?s reputation in question surprised many people, but none so much as Paula Jones? lawyers. They?d asked President Clinton to turn over ?any correspondence and communication? with Willey back in January, and received a reply stating there were ?no such documents.? Now, in yet another court filing released over the weekend, the Jones team cites this as evidence of obstruction of justice -- the same charge they spent 700 pages trying to prove two weeks...