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Marketing experts say you shouldn't mess with an internationally recognized logo, but one of the most famous may be on the way out: the RED CROSS...
...Dallas. He has a lot to handle in this derisive comedy. His wife (Farrah Fawcett) goes nuts and naked in a mall fountain; his clients, to a woman, are idle and self-absorbed. To Altman and screenwriter Anne Rapp, women's problems are the result of their having way too much time on their manicured hands. The film's blithe misogyny soon becomes wearying; it refuses to see women as more than the sum of their private parts...
...East Texas, about a 30-minute drive from the Gulf of Mexico: "Distant refinery flames flapped against the apricot sky." Karr's parents, whose Wagnerian domestic travails thundered so consistently throughout The Liars' Club, have receded to the background of this book as she tries to find her own way in the world. That fadeaway is understandable but still a shame, since Pete and Charlie Karr seem interestingly unique, and teenage anxieties...
...same number as there are representatives from the 50 states (plus three for D.C.) in the House and Senate--will gather in state capitals on Dec. 18 to cast their ballots. On Jan. 6, the ballots will be counted, and the next President will be chosen. That's the way it's supposed to work. Here are some bizarre, but plausible, scenarios that are not so simple...
...scenario assumes electors vote as they have pledged. But some electors have gone their own way. In 1976 a Republican Washington State elector cast a ballot for Ronald Reagan even though Gerald Ford was the G.O.P. nominee. Only a handful of electors have strayed. But in a tie race, it would take only one elector voting for Ralph Nader or his Aunt Edna to throw the whole thing off. To be sure, since electors are chosen by their parties, they're usually loyal. But only a few states require a pledge from electors. And that rule has never been tested...