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California Democrat Howard Berman predicts that many members would be torn among three choices: following their party, their home districts or the way their state voted. As Berman sees it, Perot could benefit if Bill Clinton fares poorly in the popular vote. "A lot of members," Berman says, "might prefer this diamond in the rough to four more years of gridlock with Bush." To some legislators, every option could taste like political hemlock. Ducking the decision equals cowardice. Backing a candidate unpopular at home risks constituents' wrath. Crossing party lines imperils any politician's future in public office...
...never recruit allies on the GM board of directors, would be facing a Congress of 535 members of the opposition parties. Pet rocks, indeed. But legislators can also read the election returns, or they wouldn't be on Capitol Hill in the first place. As California Democratic Congressman Howard Berman says, "The level of demoralization around Congress is so deep now it can cause people to contemplate doing things that make little sense in normal times." Things like cooperating with America's first independent President in 200 years...
Capping off the cast are the pageant's cohosts, the Elvisesque Alberto V. O'Five (John Berman) and the Sally Jessy Raphaelesque Jeannie Ality (Bart St. Clair). There are no Sally Jessy Raphaelesque characters in Hamlet...
PROKOFIEV: The Complete Piano Music, Vols. 1-4 (Chandos). For Sergei Prokofiev's centennial, Boris Berman has begun a welcome traversal of all this modern master's difficult solo piano music. It's safe to say of Berman -- whose strong technique is calculated to capture both the music's lyricism and its sardonic bite -- that his artistry equals his audacity...
...A.N.C.'s troubles can be blamed on others. While most members recognize the need for negotiations, some of its leaders are still caught up in dreams of revolution. "The very notion of revolutionary politics excludes any idea of give and take," says John Kane-Berman, executive director of the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg. "But that's the game the A.N.C. has been pushed into playing." The desire to remain a liberation movement until white domination ends may be understandable, but in such a delicate period, confrontational tactics discourage the climate for negotiations that the A.N.C. itself...