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Clinton's final unpretty week cost him heavily among Republicans, independents and even evangelicals who were prepared to cross over to the Democratic ticket. Of voters who decided in the last week, 47% went for Dole, 35% for Clinton and 17% for Perot. Many actually sent their message by not voting at all: turnout fell below 50%, to the lowest level since...
...voter who had press credentials and a ticket on Air Force One--riding as the magazine pool reporter in the great plane's Newt Gingrich Memorial Steerage Compartment, back behind the Secret Service, where they keep the crates of live chickens, the goats and the journalists--might have hoped to see the flesh and blood of democracy up close, but spent his time instead fantasizing a kind of Super Bowl that would pit the Soccer Moms against the Deadbeat Dads...
...export-oriented American business, an invitation to join the U.S. Commerce Secretary on one of his trade missions abroad is like a World Series ticket--the hottest seat in town, and something you just might pay top dollar to get. In 1992 Bill Clinton promised that his Administration would fight hard to help American companies win foreign business. That's a worthy goal of trade missions, which provide selected CEOs with priceless connections to the corporate heads and government officials of other nations...
Maybe competitions could be held for literary material focused on each of the most familiar waits Americans put up with--driver's-license renewals, rock-concert ticket lines. Not drawbridge waits. That's been taken care...
...Small World Order," written by Doug Rand, with score by Adam Levitin, is billed by its creators as a "mega-multimedia demonstration." Entering the theater, patrons are received by a greeter in a Disney visor who gives a standard "welcome to the theme park" speech and escorts each ticket holder to the seating area. This is all very funny the first time it happens, but if you're waiting in line, it grows tedious rather quickly...