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...about the silent treatment or a bust in the chops? Thus Vernon Jordan gets a nickname (V.J.), whereas Jeffords barely gets a hello. Not for Jeffords a dinner in the private quarters or one of those coveted invitations to dine on chicken cacciatore and see the latest movie. Forget a call to the ranch...
...hung over the group like a toxic cloud, even though the women came from different backgrounds, were at different points in their careers and had a different number of kids. Get a group of mothers together, and we will find plenty to feel guilty about. We get divorced, we forget to sign permission slips or to retrieve our kids on time on early-dismissal days, we can't afford piano lessons and trips to Disneyland. "But really," I asked the guilty group, "did any of us shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die?" No. Guilt is just...
RATTED OUT Forget the mystery surrounding Robert Blake's wife. The real puzzle plaguing Los Angeles is how the official "traveling bear" logo, below left, featured on California's welcome-center signs, morphed into the unidentifiable rodent-like creature, below right, on three city signs. Caltrans, the agency in charge of the state's road signs, says it has "no idea where the graphic came from" but vows to replace them all with the good old iconic grizzly bear, at a cost of $4,000 each...
...elections function as a symbol of democracy, but don't guarantee its practice. It's what evolves after an election that truly makes a society democratic - a free press, limits placed on the exercise of power by an independent judiciary, an open system of government. In 1933, lest we forget, Hitler came to power after elections conducted under Germany's impeccably democratic Weimar constitution...
Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. And don't forget The China Syndrome. With their long, notorious track records of burning money and spewing toxic waste, it's hard to imagine that nuclear power plants could ever again be hot properties. But in Vernon, Vt., some of the nation's largest energy companies are battling to gobble one up. The Vermont Yankee plant, a 28-year-old nuclear war-horse, has become the target of a bidding...