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...relationship of Harmony and Skye, Tyler's friends, whose not-uncommon fear of dating strangers drives them to each other's arms because they've known each other since preschool days. Nor does Coupland tell the story of Daisy and her boyfriend Murray (also dreadlocked) searching in vain for politically correct employment. Coupland wants very much to be the voice of this generation, but he must understand that its stories are intriguing enough to stand on their own. He does not have to dance around hair gels and alternative music to tell them...
This cycle usually lasts until the weekend, when a vain attempt is made to catch up by sleeping additional hours...
...equatorial sun is beating down hard now, and many of the 1,000 people still waiting in the exposed courtyard have propped aluminum pots on their heads in a vain attempt to shield themselves from the heat. Others have tried to squeeze into the pool of shade offered by a scraggly tree. A teary- eyed little girl, throat dry with thirst, slips by the guards and pleads for a jug of water. She is angrily rebuffed. Workers have grown accustomed to the desperate, and few have pity, any longer, to spare...
SEPARATED AT BIRTH. As the two most telegenic Southern moderates in the Democratic Party, just 19 months apart in age, both Clinton and Gore had ambitions that seemed on a collision course. In 1987 Gore journeyed to Little Rock, Arkansas, to plead in vain for Clinton's support for the Tennessee Senator's own 1988 presidential bid. But now that the hierarchy between the two men is firmly established, they are at last free to enjoy their Ivy League similarities. "For Clinton it's like having your twin brother run for Vice President on the same ticket," says a campaign...
...hard finding people who were willing to be interviewed. He got the names of potential contacts from probation and anti-gang officers but, says Hull, "these guys aren't exactly looking for publicity." He showed up more than once for a street-corner meeting, then waited in vain for a source to show up -- wondering all the while whether he was about to become the target of a beating or a drive-by shooting himself. Even when he made contact, he says, "it took a long time to get them to trust me." But in the end, Jon found...