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...fitting in some Darwinian way; we lowly ones in our eggshells offer minimal resistance as the Trumps and Keatings crunch over us, car phones in hand, on the way to their bankruptcy hearings and leveraged buyouts. Indeed, it seems part of the American Dream to become rich enough to wrap oneself in so much tanklike armor that one barely feels the bump of the riffraff undertire. But now that dream is under attack, according to an organization calling itself the Coalition for Vehicle Choice. According to the coalition, a collection of the usual well- meaning but misguided dupes, liberals, Congressmen...
...they had made a videotape of the President's statement. They had used Anatoli's camera. She told me they were going to unreel the tape from the cassette and cut it into several pieces ((to make it easier to hide)). She said, "So I will wrap the tape in a small ball and give it to you in the evening. But please, don't keep it on you. You may be frisked...
...This sincerity bodes incredibly well for how we wrap up this century and go into the next," says Mackay-Smith. "Learning at college is a distinct act and requires the attention of those fostering...
...idea of attaching advertising supplements to a magazine with plastic wrap caught on in the mid-1980s, though the number has waned because of expensive postal regulations. Even Klein's booklet will be wrapped with only 250,000 or so copies of Vanity Fair (out of a total circulation of about 850,000), and will not be available at newsstands except in Southern California and metropolitan New York...
...activity will go round the clock with the July 1 debut of the Courtroom Television Network, a judicial version of CNN. The new cable channel (owned largely by Time Warner) will cover some trials live -- with play-by- play commentary from legal experts -- and others on tape in nightly wrap-up programs. The network hopes to premiere with the Los Angeles trial of four police officers charged in the videotaped beating of Rodney King...