Word: byronic
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...investigating Abramoff. The fact that Abramoff-controlled tribal money found its way to the highest levels of conservative power in the country is making a lot of people in Washington nervous. "If you painted that money purple, there'd be a lot of purple pockets around town," says Senator Byron Dorgan, the ranking Democrat on the committee...
...national telephone system was converted from a staterun monopoly into a private enterprise. While it is too soon to predict how much business will be captured by foreign firms, the winners are likely to be those companies that can adapt to the special demands of the Japanese market. Says Byron Battle, an undersecretary of economic affairs for the Massachusetts Office of International Trade: "In Japan, you have to sell it their way, not the Great American way." That is a lesson as old as world trade. --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported by Yukinori Ishikawa/Tokyo, with other bureaus
...Connor acknowledged that the decision would cause plaintiffs to lose when "evidence is ambiguous," but she concluded that the "Constitution requires us to tip" toward protecting speech. Justice John Paul Stevens did not see the balance that way. In a dissent joined by Warren Burger, William Rehnquist and Byron White, he called the decision a "blueprint for character assassination...
...York City, 1944. After hearing a 15-year-old prodigy named Byron Janis perform, Horowitz invites the boy to study with him. The fee: $50 an hour. "I was awed, inspired and, yes, a little frightened," remembers Janis. "I was aware from what people were telling me and from what I had read about Horowitz that there would be difficulties in working with such a great artist." The pedagogy was unusual. Horowitz advised against practicing too much. (He himself dislikes practicing.) Sometimes the maestro would listen while lying on the floor, offering suggestions from a prone position. "The piano...
...Bengal. There are 500-year-old Sanskrit scriptures inscribed on palm leaves, Korans 25 mm wide (written so the verses form the shapes of animals) and, in the margins of verses by the poet Hafiz, annotations by the Mughal Emperors Humayun and Jahangir. There are even jottings by Byron?two verses added by the English poet to his "Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte." With so few visitors, director Imtiaz Ahmad will dig out his most precious pieces for you to peruse over chai and spicy chips. "The academic traditions of this city will endure," he says. "They are weakened...