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LEAVE IT TO CNN, THE WORLD'S BACK fence, to make the ephemeral universal. Each weekend, CNN airs STYLE WITH ELSA KLENSCH, a brisk survey of how rich people live, dress and accessorize. The show offers runway reports of next season's couture (for the women) with more cleavage than anywhere this side of pay cable (for men), plus grooming tips and a visit to some fashion pooh-bah's aerie. Hovering above the glitz, as stately and nurturing as the Queen Mum, is the Australian-born Klensch. For Elsa, shoddy clothes and naughty tattle simply n'existent pas. "Karl...
...rather stay with the man we know," says one Kuwaiti. With such excitement, one wouldn't guess that the country is about to hold its own parliamentary elections next month. Gatherings meant to discuss local politics are now dominated by satellite TV broadcasts of the U.S. elections sent via CNN. And despite Bush's trailing Clinton in the polls, the Kuwaitis have victory on the brain. Says one: "If Bush gets re-elected, we'll slaughter a sheep to celebrate...
...family-values issue could conceivably become awkward for the Republicans this year: it invites questions about their responsibility and stewardship, and tempts a backlash. But do Americans accept the idea that Republican values are superior to those of Democrats? Perhaps. A TIME-CNN poll last week found that only 3% of voters consider family values to be the major issue in the campaign. More than one-third said the economy was the major issue, and 19% said unemployment. Only 1% believe abortion should be the main issue...
...meeting with Rabin went well enough until the closing press conference, when a CNN reporter threw a question that had rested half-buried like a live grenade from an old war. Had Bush, as Vice President, participated in a "sexual tryst" with a longtime assistant? Unsubstantiated gossip about | Bush and Jennifer Fitzgerald had floated among reporters and politicians -- including Bush's staff -- since the early '80s, then escaped last week through a brassy headline in the New York Post based on a brief reference in a new book. "It's a lie," the President responded...
...made the pilgrimage to immerse themselves in the new technology. Among those who have come to play at the center's 90 (mostly Macintosh) workstations are photographer Richard Avedon, graphic designer Milton Glaser and illustrator Jean-Michel Folon. (It was here that photographer Gregory Heisler created the Ted Turner-CNN composite that illustrated TIME's Man of the Year cover...