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Physicists half jokingly call it the TOE--Theory of Everything. The idea is to describe all matter, all energy, all the fundamental forces of nature in one tidy, elegant set of equations. But it's so devilishly difficult that Einstein spent his last years in frustration trying to concoct just a partial solution to the problem...
...chairman Haley Barbour, who would like the candidate to name someone shrewd, trusted and sporting enough to try to coordinate Dole's decisions as majority leader with the demands of a tough campaign against Bill Clinton. Party leaders suggest that only a few Republicans have the stature to go toe to toe with Dole: former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber and former Reagan chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein. But there are two problems: Dole has always jealously guarded that double portfolio; and none of these men appear to want the job--unless, in Campbell...
...fashion director Kalman Ruttenstein, who dreamed up the scheme: "You put these hot trends together." But Gluck-Frankel disagrees. "You don't put anything together or try to match things. That's the downtown feel." Oddly, they are both right. Sighs Ruttenstein: "No one young wears head-to-toe anything anymore...
...nearly four years, Brian Malone and his cronies at Peninsula have engaged in several dirty-tricks campaigns against Republicans who do not toe their line on every issue. In his dealings and behavior, Mr. Malone has been nothing but sneaky, underhanded and cowardly...
Lovett's music blared thorugh the speakers during the next set of songs, a toe-tapping and high-stepping piece called "Nine Lives." Much well-deserved applause was given to costume director Nong Tumsutipong, who clad the men deliciously in tight jeans and sweat-stained silk shirts, and the women in colorful and daring leotards pieced together in geometric shapes. The latter fashion statement looked somewhat odd and misplaced next to the hip-swaggering cowboys, but it was dazzling nonetheless...