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Starr operates out of offices in Washington and Little Rock, Ark., with grand juries seated in both places. He recently seated a third in suburban Virginia, the locale of one of Tripp's taped conversations with Lewinsky. Critics charge he chose that venue because the more conservative citizens there might produce a grand jury less favorable to Vernon Jordan and Clinton. Starr's staff includes 20 lawyers who move between Little Rock and Washington as needed, plus about 20 support staff and scores of federal agents who are at his disposal. Even by the standards of Washington, a place accustomed...
...Apostle required 35 years of watching and waiting. In 1962, during rehearsals for an off-Broadway show in which he was to play a man from Hughes, Ark., Duvall broke up a transcontinental trip to stop in Hughes. "I got off the Trailways bus," he recollects, "and wandered into this little church. There was a lively preacher; the congregation was stomping and moving and feeling the spirit. I said I'd like to play one of these guys one day." When he asked Foote to do the screenplay, the author encouraged the actor to try it himself. In 1984 Duvall...
DIED. JUNIOR WELLS, 63, blues master of the harmonica; of cancer; in Chicago. Playing the blues came naturally to a youth angling for tips in the streets of West Memphis, Ark. But he hit his groove in the Windy City as one-third of the Little Chicago Devils and later on tour with Muddy Waters. Hoodoo Man Blues, his classic jam session with guitarist Buddy Guy, was Wells at his finest--fiery, raw, defiant...
Ethiopian Orthodoxy is a curious amalgam of Judaic and Christian practices, African and European rituals. It is manifestly a man's religion: only males may enter the inner sanctuary where it is claimed Moses' Ark is hidden. No one knows anyone who has actually seen it, but the pilgrims are certain it is there. "They don't have to let people see it for us to believe it," says a gnarled elder. "That's the mystery." Women, he adds, are excluded because "God made the rules for mankind and women broke them...
...lights the horizon, a handful of chosen men will enter the holiest sanctuary to hear Mass from priests hidden behind a wall of vivid icons. The rest are content just to be among people who believe as they believe. Soon, they say, the Patriarch will appear with the Ark to pronounce his blessing. Calmly, serenely, the pilgrims wait. By noon, the Patriarch has come and gone in a brisk flourish of gilded robes. There is no Ark, and the blessing is delivered swiftly amid a crush of baton-swinging soldiers and security guards. But the pilgrims do not mind, says...