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...Gore family's links with Occidental date back to the vice president's father's close relationship with Armand Hammer, the oil baron who created Occidental and who often found himself in the limelight of controversy because of his extensive investments in the old Soviet Union. When J. Edgar Hoover had accused Hammer of being a communist agent in 1962, Senator Gore defended him on the Senate floor, and after performing other favors for the company over the years, Gore Senior, after losing his Senate seat in 1970, took a job with an Occidental subsidiary for an annual salary...
During the Sydney Games, Leo Schofield is hoping for some crossover curiosity. As maestro of the Olympic Arts Festival, which opens this week, he has brought some 4,000 artists from around the globe to compete for attention over the next six weeks. In founding the modern Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin sought to recreate ancient Olympia, when "letters and the arts were always harmoniously combined with sport." But after his Pentathlon of the Muses was abandoned in 1948, Olympic arts have often been sidelined by sport. "Whatever festival you mount, it will only ever be a pendant event...
...were fashioning such tort-reform legislation. President Clinton, trying to position himself between the GOP and liberal Democrats as he prepared for his 1996 reelection campaign, alarmed the trial bar with talk of compromise. "He did indicate his willingness to sign a bill that met certain parameters," says Fred Baron, a Texan who is president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America...
...given the cast of public characters at the time, but it was not all that far from the truth. As David Nasaw's superb new biography, The Chief (Houghton Mifflin; 687 pages; $35), makes compellingly clear, Hearst was the most powerful, the most self-centered and the richest media baron in the world. He controlled newspapers that reached 20 million readers, a news wire service, magazines, newsreels and feature-film companies and radio stations. Each enterprise was tied to the others, creating "synergy" before anyone had heard the word. Hearst said he was serving the nation, but what...
...lonely center of the North Pacific Ocean, farther from just about everything than just about anywhere, lies Midway Atoll. I've come with Canadian writer Nancy Baron to the world's largest Laysan albatross colony--400,000 exquisite masters of the air--a feathered nation convened to breed, cramming an isle a mile...