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People have always wanted to be rich. It's no crime. Wealth as a goal is even noble when pursued honestly and patiently. Yet in these marry-a-millionaire times, the pursuit of instant and effortless fortune is being hammered home like never before: state lotteries, legalized gambling, day trading, Internet IPOs and, you guessed it, high-stakes game shows on every network. The message is clear: Patience is for losers; grab your share now. If you can't get past the qualifying round of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, take out a loan and spend anyway--as though...
...another top Administration figure is thinking about a new job, but this one is a bit unusual. It is in a faraway land and comes with a beautiful castle with uniformed guards at the gate. The candidate is, if anything, even more surprising: Sources tell TIME that Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT has begun to consider the possibility of running for the presidency of the Czech Republic once the second Clinton term is over. Like a woman who doesn't want to be seen dating until she is legally separated, she has let it be known to intermediaries that...
This romance began 18 months ago, officials on both sides of the Atlantic say, during a visit by Havel to Washington. Havel told the Czech-born Secretary of State that he would like her to replace him as President of the Czech Republic. But Albright, less than halfway through her new job, demurred. Although Havel retains only a moral authority in the Czech Republic, the presidency being now a largely ceremonial post, the courtship has begun again. In a meeting last week in Hradcany Castle, former Czech Ambassador to the U.S. MICHAEL ZANTOVSKY reintroduced the idea to Havel. "The ball...
...KLAUS, chairman of the opposition Civic Democratic Party, have their own matches to make. They might not cotton to someone who is not just an outsider but a woman as well. "I'm sure she won't have a problem finding a job after she's out of the State Department," says Jonathan Stein of Prague's EastWest Institute. "But I don't think that job's going to be in Prague." Next week Albright will begin to pursue that option for herself...
...offend Luke and Laura, who seem to have had some very unfortunate troubles, but these contrived marriages seem doomed to fail. Maybe getting hitched after a first date is romantic, but to me, it means more when a commitment evolves without depending on the powers vested by a church, state or a TV network that pushed that Action show way too hard...