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...over who is the worst. Al Gore, on the other hand, is a model ex-Vice President. Minutes after the Inauguration, he quietly repaired to a modest Tudor house in Arlington, Va. He began lecturing to journalism students at Columbia University (ironically, off limits to journalists), and plans to write a book about families. He's betrayed no bitterness, even when he presided over the Electoral College vote. But from his skyscraper, awash in his global celebrity and a small fortune, Clinton continues to cast a shadow on his old friend. Will it always be Gore's fate that when...
...plan to $1.8 trillion; House majority leader Dick Armey would inflate the cuts to $2.6 trillion. Corporate lobbyists "are baying at the door" of the Ways and Means Committee, says Florida Representative Mark Foley, with pleas for up to $1 trillion in goodies--lower corporate tax rates, larger write-offs for computers, more tax credits. Kick in other tax subsidies that important constituencies like farmers want extended, and the tab runs up to nearly $4 trillion. "Time out!" pleads Max Baucus, senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. "Let's slow down here...
...have some of his skin cells stored for future cloning. "If I'm not cloned before I die, my estate will be set up so that I can be cloned after," he says, admitting, however, that he hasn't found a lawyer willing to help. "It's hard to write a will with all these uncertainties," he concedes. "A lot of lawyers will look at me crazy...
...works, clearly illustrates two valuable lessons the company has learned about how to make money in the theme-park business. The first lesson is, don't overbuild. Disney learned that the hard way in France, where the overly ambitious Disneyland Paris forced the company to take a write-down in 1993. "We probably built too many hotel rooms and sized the park a little larger than we needed to," admits Pressler. When it came to expanding in Anaheim, he says, "we wanted to make sure we were building smaller than we feel the demand is." Disney left nearly 30 acres...
...Army brat who started writing stories in the third grade, Parks was nudged into theater by James Baldwin, her creative-writing teacher at Mount Holyoke. Now she has caught the attention, against all odds, of Disney, which has hired her to write a musical about the Harlem Globetrotters. "I don't set out to make statements," she says. "I like theater that comes from the guts." And theater that has guts...