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...fashioned parents and modern kids make for one another. Handsome, Taiwan-born Wai-tung (Winston Chao) is doing well in Manhattan real estate and has a loving lover, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). But his parents back home -- the General (Sihung Lung) and Mrs. Gao (Ah-leh Gua) -- urgently want a grandchild. How do you arrange a marriage if your son is gay? Not so hard, if he doesn't tell you. Easier still, if he arranges it himself, after Simon suggests that Wai-tung wed Wei-wei (May Chin), a pretty artist who's behind in her rent. Wei-wei doesn...
...Delta Clipper-Experimental (or DC-X) is quite real, and its brief maiden voyage last week -- space engineers called it a "bunny hop" -- could signal the start of a new era in space travel. A grandchild of the original Star Wars program, the Delta Clipper is designed to accomplish precisely what the space shuttle promised but never delivered: cheap, dependable access to space...
...important thing to remember is that the stock doesn't know you own it," he said. "It doesn't know if you are a good person. People treat it like a pet or a grandchild...
...years out of college is damn near impossible, especially if you're just Joe-average Citibank employee like me," says Paul. With a baby due in May, they're bracing for a pay cut. "Fortunately, all the baby stuff will come from our parents, since this is the first grandchild," says Paul. Even so, he's not entirely comfortable with the arrangement. He says, "If we depend on our parents and something happens, and we don't get it, what are our children going...
Despite his glee at the campaign antics, Gore Vidal is disgusted. He has loved politics passionately all his life. The grandchild of a U.S. Senator, he himself ran for that office unsuccessfully in 1982. In 1960 he wrote The Best Man, a witty, astute play about a presidential campaign. What he sees around him now is all change and decay. "We have one political party with two right wings," he says. "See why I go so deep into satire? You know, there are only two great issues -- converting from war to peace and managing the economy. Instead we're talking...