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Carol Moseley Braun, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Illinois, has become the woman of the year in what has been dubbed the Year of the Women in politics...
...three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Montgomery, Alabama, has ruled that Soldier of Fortune magazine will have to pay $4.37 million in compensatory damages to Michael and Ian Braun. Their father, a businessman, was murdered in a contract killing set in motion by a 1985 classified ad headed GUN FOR HIRE and offering the "special skills" of a "professional mercenary." Two other businessmen, the advertiser, Richard Michael Savage, and an associate of his, were convicted of conspiracy in the murder. Soldier of Fortune, the court ruled, was negligent in publishing an ad that clearly indicated...
...Russian historian Lev Bezymensii, elaborating on his claim that Hitler's teeth -- as well as Eva Braun's -- were retrieved by the Soviet counterintelligence unit SMERSH (that's right) and are still in the Russian military archives...
Babies also fit into the new stay-at-home-but-keep-a-Range-Rover-in-the- garag e mentality. Shopping for the Bloomie's Baby layette has replaced comparing the $400 Gaggia cappuccino maker to the Braun. People who own fish poachers now wonder what in the world they were thinking of. To judge by fat and glossy Child magazine, the Vogue of the play-date set, cloning oneself opens up a whole new buying opportunity...
Yeakel, who has said she wants to make the fall campaign in part a referendum on Specter's memorably merciless questioning of Hill, joins Illinois Senate hopeful Carol Moseley Braun at the top of a growing list of women who are riding the perception that women will prove to be natural reformers of a broken-down system that has kept them at arms' length. Daughter of an 11-term Congressman, Yeakel did not run a shoestring campaign; she spent about $200,000 of her own money...