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...Previous inaugurations have varied in size and tone. For University President Derek C. Bok, who preceded Rudenstine, the inauguration was a modest affair...
...Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons) and pledged a $10,000 reward from his campaign treasury for her return. Since then his lawyer, Joe Cotchett, has fired off letters to the media demanding retractions of various stories. One reported that Chandra had told a close relative about an affair, another said Condit had admitted to police that Chandra had stayed overnight at his apartment, and a third took issue with a cropped photo. Condit's demands for retractions don't go to the heart of the allegations but only dwell on the edges; he doesn't deny that Chandra visited...
...young to understand the significance of the occasion, not to mention use the toilet. Alana Glatzer, director of the Intown playgroup, a pre-nursery school in Washington, told me that the group's ceremony, complete with caps and diplomas for two-year-olds, is a chaotic and happy affair for the diaper-wearing graduates. "The kids don't always understand what's going on," she says, "but it's really for the parents...
...aside, "The Magic Christian" (1969) is, for this reviewer, the most easily rewatchable Southern adaptation. Boasting the only onscreen union of members of the Goons, the Beatles, and the Pythons, the film stands as a kind of watershed in British movie comedy. Like the novel, it is an episodic affair, with some scenes working and others missing the mark (Southern himself disliked an amusing auction sequence written by and featuring a young John Cleese). Unlike the aforementioned psychedelic comedies, the cameos here produce intentional laughter. Laurence Harvey, Christopher Lee, Yul Brynner, and Raquel Welch (as "the Priestess of the Whip...
Four years ago, the election campaign was an exciting affair - edgy, full of the possibility of big changes, yet still uncertain. The polls consistently predicted an easy Labour victory, but there were still those who doubted. Although the Conservatives were trailing Labour by up to 20 points, just as they have been during this campaign, the Tories themselves took comfort from the 1992 election results, when they outfoxed the polls that gave Labour a 1% lead and won by a small margin...