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Sununu does not think like Bush or any other let's-make-a-deal politician. He was trained as an engineer and a debater, and it shows. The engineer in him enormously enjoys the substantive questions of governance: What kind of pollution control is cost-effective? Which jet fighter technologies should we share with Japan? To such questions, Sununu brings voracious curiosity, a keen analytical gift and near total recall. Budget Director Richard Darman, Sununu's only intellectual peer in the Bush inner circle, points out that "Sununu is trained in fluid dynamics and has a good sense...
Despite its obsession with dieting, the U.S. population seems to grow fatter every year. And so does the industry tailored to respond to the needs and neuroses of those who are fighting, and largely failing, to keep their waistlines under control. Americans spent more than $30 billion last year on such offerings as diet books, videotapes, appetite suppressants, "lite" foods, low-calorie beverages and commercial weight-loss programs. Now the overweight and overwrought are rushing to try the latest raft of crash-diet plans, which promote ways to trim fat quickly by doing little more than taking pills or swilling...
...show went on, but only after a hectic week of damage control. Other musical guests, the Spanic Boys and Julee Cruise, were hired to replace O'Connor. The writers pulled all-nighters to come up with new material playing off the controversy. Just before airtime on Saturday night, police had to clear chanting protesters from the lobby of the NBC studios. Clay, after fending off some hecklers during his opening monologue, promised to mind his mouth: "What do I need -- more p.r.? I couldn't get more p.r. if I took out my penis and wrapped it around a microphone...
...newly formed ruling party of South Korea met to celebrate its merger last week, a referendum of sorts broke out in the streets. About 70,000 protesters, mostly students, took control of downtown Seoul and 16 provincial cities. They battled police, injuring 335 of them, and fire bombed party offices and the U.S. Information Service headquarters in the capital. More than 1,800 rioters were arrested, but only 55 were formally charged...
Student leaders charge that Roh is planning to use his parliamentary control to postpone elections, scheduled for 1992, and prolong his rule. There is no evidence to support this so far, and among professional politicians Roh is more often accused of weak leadership. His nickname, "Water," reflects the view that he is a bit slippery and hard to pin down...