Word: winners
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...WINNER Leno; when he discusses politics, people actually listen
...good gauge of your love for a new CD is how long it takes you to get from first cut to last. By that standard, and from this angle, Kim Richey's third album, Glimmer, is a winner: we kept pushing the replay button on so many songs that it was only the prod of journalistic responsibility that got us to the end of the album in time to write about it. This is a country voice--as singer and songwriter--worth spending time with; a mind worth creeping into and curling up in for an extended stay...
RETIRING. BARRY SANDERS, 31, Detroit Lions running back. Sanders was 1,458 yds. short of breaking Walter Payton's NFL career rushing record. Yet strained dealings with his team drove the 1988 Heisman Trophy winner with a $36 million contract to head to London instead of training camp...
Kennedy developed a program of elegant practicality that became a $50,000 winner. Reaching Up helps health-care workers help themselves through training programs it has persuaded local officials to fund at several New York colleges. Hundreds have learned to do their jobs better through the training, and many have been promoted as a result. Kennedy also lent the family name--and with it, a measure of respect--to the Kennedy Fellows, a group of 75 health-care workers chosen each year for $1,000 scholarships...
...falls to President B. J. Habibie to break the impasse. But even if he upholds the results, the winner at the polls ? opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri, who garnered 36 percent of the vote compared with Habibie?s 22 percent ? looks far from certain to inherit the spoils. A complex electoral process, which includes significant votes for the military and appointees of the provinces, means that despite the vote, the next president will be decided in backroom deals. "Many fear that the complicated mechanics of electing a president, designed by Suharto to minimize direct public participation, will be used to nullify...