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Attending Witness for the Prosecution is about as fun as serving jury duty. In this faithful production of Agatha Christie's humdrum courtroom drama, the audience is asked to sit through a lengthy and primarily uneventful murder trial. Similar to real-life jury duty, the brightest moment of the play comes in the end when a verdict is announced and the plot, finally, twists...
...Catholic Church's chief enforcer of dogma, the Cardinal stands in direct succession to the persecutors of Galileo and the compilers of the index of banned books. The weight of history is borne in the attention Ratzinger receives. His staff, which includes some of the church's brightest men, is sensitive to every small sign of pleasure or displeasure -- a subtle glance, a pause, a bland word that has accrued special meaning over years. When he gets to his office, important documents are spread out on the desk, ready for his review. Says an associate: "He hates to be unprepared...
WASHINGTON -- The night of the Administration's nafta victory, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and his wife welcomed Washington's brightest and best to their 50th wedding anniversary party. Among the 250 guests gathered at Blair House were both Clintons, most of the Cabinet, and ... dressed down in a cozy white warmup outfit, CNN's Larry King, who astonished fellow guests by exclaiming, "They owe it all to me!" Presumably King was referring to NAFTA and not the Bentsens' half-century of marriage...
Pearl Jam was the best and brightest of the bands to emerge from the hinterlands, and one of the few to have lasted out the year. This can be attributed to the fact that Pearl Jam has not limited itself to the mix of heavy metal and alternative sounds that crossed musical barriers to make grunge so popular in the first place. On its second album, Pearl Jam, while still rife with the guitar laden distortions that are the genre's trademark, easily blends acoustic, acid and blues sounds to achieve a harmony of theme and expression...
...interesting sidebar, Newsweek concluded that the precipitous decline of our generation's culture could be blamed on--guess who--Harvard. Our best and brightest are abandoning their productive careers as high-priced lawyers and are instead flocking in droves to write TV comedy...