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...Never Break Your Heart. Once in a while a kid may sing that he wants to be "your lover," but it's all within the realm of I Want to Hold Your Hand. As always, the groups are selling themselves as training boyfriends--sexy, crushable, but no Usher, say, who might use a swear word now and then or want to go too far too fast, if you catch our drift...
...polls are to be believed, the American public says the President should not be impeached. Now you can add Wall Street to the anti-impeachment column. "The market hates uncertainty," says TIME economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "And anything as grave as an impeachment can be expected to usher in a period of volatility for stocks...
...last day of 1999, virtually everyone in Berlin is likely to head for the same place: the Brandenburg Gate. Once a symbol of the city's loathed division, it was triumphantly reopened in December 1989. A decade later, it is certain to be a particularly joyous gathering place to usher in 2000--with splendid music, wondrous fireworks and considerable jubilation...
When the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica is opened for midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, 1999, it will usher in the Jubilee Year for Roman Catholics around the world. From that night until the feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6, 2001, the Vatican has prepared a full calendar of solemn observances, including prayer vigils, ecumenical celebrations and several canonizations, over which the Pope will preside...
Winfrey, in the wake of Phil Donahue, helped usher in an age of confessional, ultrapersonal TV. Hers was television that cared, that wanted to know, that wanted you to spill your feelings and your guts and just forget about the 15 million people or so watching. Today, of course, all of television wears the Stained Blue Dress of Confessional Excess. Winfrey used confessional TV to explore, to empathize, to try to figure out where people were coming from. Today people watch Jerry Springer to see a good fight, to see a lesbian throw a punch...