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Bessette walked down the aisle, wearing a fluid, bias-cut dress of pearl-white crepe. A panel floated from the waist in the back, in a suggestion of a train. She wore a veil of silk tulle, and her crystal-beaded satin sandals were from Manolo Blahnik, designer of pricey, fashionable shoes. In her hands, covered by long white gloves, she carried a small bouquet of lilies of the valley. The groom wore a dark blue single-breasted suit, designed by Gordon Henderson, with a white pique vest and pale blue silk tie. His boutonniere was made of cornflowers...
...other hand, Agnew deserves harsher criticism than he has recieved. His harangues against the press did not merely "rais[e] issues of media bias, arrogance and unaccountability that are still banging around," as Lance Morrow wrote last week in Time magazine. Agnew was the point man in Nixon's crusade to gut the First Ammendment, laying the rhetorical framework for police style measures in areas such as confidentiality of sources, gag orders and prior restraint. These attacks on free speech also included extensive and illegal intimidation of the press; they were intended to cow the mass media into becoming...
...that "there is very little in the way of space for anyone doing anything post-Stravinsky." He cites the absence of rooms designed for modern music which would require greater sound-proofing than those constructed for violin practice. The provision of instruments is another factor in OFA's classical bias, which Nano suggests is evident in its purchase of additional grand pianos rather than a single drum set. The non-existence of a modern music department since the departure of Anthony Davis is also of central concern to those interested in folk, funk, jazz and rock...
...speech in Des Moines, Iowa, drafted by Buchanan, Agnew took on the press, which he said was dominated by a "tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one." It was a frontal assault, raising issues of media bias, arrogance and unaccountability that are still banging around in the American mind...
...since it leave out a country that has been the main Arab partner of the U.S. in the turbulent Middle East. "This is a powerful snub that betrays a lack of confidence and trust in Clinton's plans," says MacLeod. "In the long term, perceived U.S. bias toward Israel further undermines the internal position of pro-American Arab regimes under threat from Islamic militants." Clinton may be hoping for rapprochement around the table in Washington, but without Mubarak, he may not get it. -->