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Although people from all over the world come to D.C., each sporting a different accent and style, tourists generally come in two flavors: the family unit and the unending gang of noisy, rowdy kids. The target is a matter of personal preference. The locals tend to have more interaction with families, but I personally enjoy the pure entertainment value of high school seniors...
...There was no rhetoric of the kind Ted Kennedy used at the 1980 Democratic Convention, when he said, "The dream shall never die." A Kennedy friend who was there told TIME, "I've seen this family in other sad circumstances, and I'm telling you, this was different. This gang is shell-shocked, blown away. This wasn't, 'Let's have 10 family members get up and say the torch is passed, time for a new generation.' None of that. This was a funeral...
More than two dozen American airmen shot down over North Vietnam tell the stories of their captivity; interviewed in front of a black backdrop, they speak without a trace of swagger or even ego (unheard of in a gang of fighter pilots). The men are understated, even serene. Their stories of torture and endurance--one was imprisoned for 8 1/2 years--are intercut with newsreels and astonishing black-and-white propaganda footage that the Academy Award-winning husband-and-wife team of Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders found in Vietnamese archives in Hanoi...
Comedians are the schoolyard bullies of this summer's box office. Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, the South Park gang and those cutup cowboys Will Smith and Kevin Kline have upended propriety and frolicked like unruly kids until the collective funny bone is virtually numb. After this week's senior-prom sex farce American Pie, even connoisseurs of adolescent comedy may whisper a desperate prayer: "From Austins and Adams and Wild Wild Westies, and teens that go hump in the night, Good Lord deliver...
...basketball hoops with nets on them. In many of their neighborhoods, public money for after-school activities has declined, even in a time of plenty. Instead governments are directing resources toward law enforcement, education and other means of curbing such social ills as teen pregnancy, drug abuse and gang violence...