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...wait to cue up some Johnny Mathis albums. Even in Washington, his neighborhood is a sound stage: he lives in the Watergate, spends Sundays going to church, appearing on talk shows and taking Elizabeth to brunch. He has no grandchildren to divert him and few hobbies beyond watching C-SPAN or old movies. He vacations in Florida at a condominium complex where he pals around with David Brinkley and Robert Strauss and Dwayne Andreas--men taking the same break from the same loop...
This year many of the journalists in Houston will find ourselves, as we did four years ago, lingering in our hotel rooms, watching C-SPAN replay footage from conventions past. We will watch the 1956 Kennedy-Kefauver vice-presidential race; we'll see Ronald Reagan moving the 1976 convention with a concession speech that foreshadowed his triumph four years later; we'll hear Harry Truman's 1948 promise to "win this election and make the Republicans like it!" Then we'll leave the gloriously colorful black-and-white past and head for the brightly colored convention hall, hoping...
...Within a span of two hours last Sunday, two unattended packages were reported and checked as possible explosives at Harvard...
Yeltsin has managed to get re-elected, but can he govern? At 65, he is already well past the average life-span of Russian men, and since July 1995 he has had at least two episodes of myocardial ischemia, a shortage of blood supply to the heart. He also has a long pattern of rising to crises and then withdrawing into spells of depression and heavy drinking, though this time he promised voters he would not "go into hibernation." He cannot afford to. Reform of the Russian economy is still a work in progress, and his lieutenants are already circling...
...Life Video) are legion. A Chopra Website is in the works as well as a CD-ROM touted as "the ultimate Chopra experience." For those who do not read, watch television or surf the Net, the man himself will most likely soon appear nearby. In a recent six-week span, Chopra spoke in Denver, New York City, Puerto Rico, Los Angeles and Sacramento...