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After a recent whirl of travel that included a speech in Las Vegas and a meeting in Switzerland, Gates detoured to a secluded resort in New York's Adirondacks to spend a weekend with Melinda and Jennifer. There they played with 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles from a craftsman in Vermont who makes them for customers like Gates. Melinda has helped broaden her husband. Instead of studying biotechnology together, they find time to take singing lessons...
...rejiggering the CPI might be put aside for scholarly debate and perhaps glacial, piecemeal action--unless it becomes the last resort for producing a balanced budget. That could happen. Says New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "The seven-year balanced-budget plan of the President says in the final years there's a 30% unspecified cut in discretionary, nondefense spending. Without [the CPI change] you couldn't do that." But even then Republicans and Democrats, Congress and the President, would all have to agree to join hands and jump together...
Every day, Americans are belting out more of these ready-made, media-marinated catchphrases, usually of the in-your-face (to use another) variety. Conversations, movies, E-mail, ads, lovers' quarrels, punditry and stand-up comedy can barely be conducted without resort to an annoyingly popular riposte. A random gleaning, from just one Cybill episode on CBS, produced: Hel-lo-oh!; Oh, pulleeze; Get a life; Yadda yadda; Yesss! and Haven't we had enough...
Whether the tape is authentic or not, the controversy surrounding Chubais goes deeper than his campaign tactics. In many ways he embodies Russia's ambivalence about its own political future: Can Western-style democracy work in this enormous, fractious country, or will it resort to its own hybrid of economic liberalism and tight political controls? Chubais may look like a Westernizing technocrat, but he has proved to be a formidable Kremlin infighter. His own political statements portray a mixture of authoritarian and democrat. "For a society to reach democracy," he said recently, "a dictatorship must be established within the government...
When a young team loses the second game of the season, it is easy to resort to cliches and explain away the defeat as a "learning experience," and to see fisticuffs as a mark of frustration...