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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maxwell's nuanced new CD might not make as big a chart splash as Hill's, and it might be dismissed by some as overly subtle. However, the album's subdued tone shouldn't be misread as timidity. Maxwell wants to draw you in, cast a spell, and by singing in falsetto, by crooning and cooing, by whispering his way through songs, he forces listeners to really listen, to confront the emotions in his songs rather than avoid them through the cathartic escape hatch of volume. One song, the gorgeous, unhurried Submerge: Til We Become the Sun, is an abstractly...
...settled a suit for $125,000 after a fly ball injured an outfielder. In Stillwater, Okla., Karl Oltmanns, 68, a volunteer civic-group treasurer, paid $43,000 out of pocket to settle a funds-mismanagement case after his organization inadvertently let its directors' insurance lapse. On the nightmare chart, such cases rival a date with Freddy Krueger...
...first got noticed in 1996 after he took a deposition from John Huang, the fund raiser embroiled in the Clinton money scandals.) Over the past year, his reach has grown considerably, in part because Judicial Watch received $550,000 in 1997 from Richard Mellon Scaife's Carthage Foundation (see chart). Scaife is the Clinton-hounding Pittsburgh billionaire who subsidizes Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., the school where Starr planned to assume two deanships until complaints concerning a potential conflict of interest caused him to change his mind. Scaife also made close to $1 million in payments...
...Amsterdam, I became another number for the baggage retrieval services. Jetlagged and wearied from flight delays and air turbulence, with my rusty French I tried to convey to the unsympathetic baggage retrieval workers that I desperately needed my suitcases. I filled out my address, identified my luggage from a chart of pocketbooks, duffel bags and suitcases and was sent home with a shrug and callous wait-and-see attitude. I remained cool for the first 24 hours, fully confident that the system would work--that the combination of my clearly printed name on the suitcases as well as those white...
...tell him about the two kidney-stone attacks over the past five years that sent me writhing in pain to hospital emergency rooms. I happen to mention an increased sensitivity to salt in my diet, resulting in a parched mouth, information that he dutifully jots down in my chart while observing, "Maybe your body is talking to you." Then he tells me that salt tends to precipitate calcium, a common component of kidney stones, out of the bloodstream into the kidneys. He informs me that excessive vitamin C can do the same thing. I note that my kidney specialist...