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...Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon," writes Robert Fulghum in my favorite of his musings. "And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air--explode softly--and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air," depositing boxes of crayons "with the sharpener built right in.... And people would smile and get a funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination...
...period piece Freaks and Geeks (scheduled for a Sept. 25 debut, 8 p.m. E.T.), the pencil-necked latter scurry from gym-class bruisers wielding dodge balls. On Fox's Manchester Prep (not yet scheduled), the tormentors are the rich preppies in the secret society the Manchester Tribunal, their weapon psychological cruelty. And the WB's Popular (to bow Sept. 29 and 30; regularly Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) has outsiders alienated by social castes and beauty-magazine standards; the network's Roswell (Oct. 6, 9 p.m. E.T.), UFO-crash orphans alienated for being alien...
...incident does not escape Al Gore in the months ahead. What could have stopped the anti-Baptist? Police took several hours to take a look at his body, fearing that the corpse was booby-trapped, and they do not yet know whether he had a license for his weapon, an NRA bumper sticker on his car, or the membership card of some atheist terror cell...
...cover international business. But his experience as a U.S. correspondent also proved valuable last week when he wrote about the shootings at the North Valley Jewish Community Center. This week Gibney returns to business, scrutinizing the market issues that are forcing automobile companies to make design a strategic weapon. "I gained an appreciation for just how complicated it is to come up with any product that is both artful and appealing to consumers," Gibney says. "Designers are discovering with cars that if you look back at great models of the past, you'll find some inspiration for what will work...
Republican presidential hopeful GARY BAUER has a secret weapon against his rivals. Many of his supporters have been circulating a daily prayer regimen for a "prayerful pursuit of the presidency." Each invocation is targeted at a special challenge facing a long-shot aspirant, from the banal (travel efficiency) to the sublime (on Aug. 24, supporters are asked to fast "to seek God's will for Gary"). Calling for "Kingdom Impact Across Our Land," prayer partners are to plea that "the campaign team will lack gossip and false testimony. The Holy Spirit will protect the Bauer Team from deception and misperception...