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...Robeson was cast as the lead in Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones." He played Joe and sang "Ol' Man River" in stage and film versions of "Show Boat." He was a star in American and British movies, a magnetic concert basso, a sensation as Othello opposite Peggy Ashcroft in London and Uta Hagen on Broadway, a prescient advocate for African self-determination. He was also a stubborn apologist for communism, Stalin-style. In one Promethean personality were packed the power, glamour, pathos and tragedy of black dreams and leftist myopia in the 20th century...
Attorney General John Ashcroft showed his softer side last week as a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman ("Top 10 Reasons John Ashcroft Would Not Sing on Our Show--No. 5: Too busy tapping my phones"). But Ashcroft isn't softening his stance on the death penalty. Sources tell TIME that the Attorney General overruled recommendations from the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, as well as from his own committee of lawyers who review death-eligible cases, and instead decided last week to seek capital punishment for Emile Dixon, an alleged drug kingpin. It's the 12th time since...
...Ashcroft's actions have become a particularly sensitive issue in the 12 states that don't have their own death penalty. Last month Marvin Gabrion became the first person sentenced to death in Michigan since the state banned capital punishment in 1846. The case fell under federal jurisdiction because the murder he was convicted of took place a few hundred feet inside national forestland. In Vermont, another state without the death penalty, Ashcroft two weeks ago rejected a plea agreement worked out by the U.S. Attorney with lawyers for Donald Fell, accused of a kidnapping and killing. Under Reno...
...Nevertheless, when the interrogators' report reached official Washington overnight Wednesday it prompted a series of White House meetings and secure teleconferences among top Bush appointees, including Attorney General John Ashcroft, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, CIA director George Tenet and homeland security director Tom Ridge, as well as senior career officials at the Pentagon, FBI and CIA. (FBI director Bob Mueller was in San Francisco; executive assistant director Dale Watson and counter-terrorism division chief Pat D'Amuro represented the FBI at the White House sessions...
...Winners JOHN ASHCROFT Musical A.G. wows Letterman crowd with pop songs, then announces he'd like hair and urine samples from every Muslim in the audience STEVE IRWIN "Crocodile Guy" made $8.7 million last year. Too bad insurance premiums for sticking your head in a crocodile's jaw are three times that ELIZABETH HURLEY Ex-covergirl may get millions for the story of her son Damian's birth. Meanwhile, Hugh Grant is trying desperately to impregnate himself Losers DAVID BECKHAM England's top footballer breaks foot, may miss World Cup. For our American readers, that's like the Rock getting...