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FERNANDO COLLOR DE MELLO USED EVERY TRICK IN the book to delay a vote on his , impeachment in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies. But last week the President suffered what might have been the decisive blow. After a nine-hour televised hearing, Brazil's Supreme Court ruled that the chamber had every right to schedule the vote for this week and to make it a "nominal" ballot -- meaning that Deputies will have to declare themselves by name for or against. Though it is still possible that Collor will pull some last-second surprise, the odds are that the required...
Even the Cambridge Center of Commerce sent a representative to present the Cambridge Chamber Pot Award and a map of Cambridge allegedly marking the location of the city's three public restrooms...
...bill, the passage of which elicited a furyof applause from more than a dozen spectators inthe Sullivan chamber, will also allow city andschool employees to take leaves of absence, sickleaves and parental leaves related to theirdomestic partner ships...
...skin color. Though modest, residents are still demonstrably jealous of the fact that Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, gets all the glory for the first Wright brothers flight, even though the inventors lived and worked in Dayton. "Hell, we deserve the credit," says Thomas Heine, president of the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce. But he admits that name recognition is not one of Dayton's greater assets: "If you ask most people about Dayton, they won't say yuck, and they won't say yeah! They...
Anna Karenina makes the case for the smaller-scale musical. It is a modestly produced chamber piece, with a minimal set and an orchestra of seven. What is right with the show all involves just one or two people, notably the first fine rapture of the title character's illicit infatuation with Count Vronsky and the pathetic disillusionment that sends her to her grim fate. What is wrong could not be fixed by any amount of dressing up. Anna is an earnest, intermittently moving but never quite thrilling stage equivalent to PBSs Masterpiece Theater -- lovely gowns, precise elocution and ballroom...