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...Hanson called the RTC's Kulka at home the next day with Nussbaum's request. Kulka brushed her off, telling Hanson that while Nussbaum was correct about the charter, Fiske didn't want any part of the civil case...
...hands of special prosecutor Fiske, who had been chosen two weeks earlier by Reno to launch the criminal inquiry into Whitewater? If so, Nussbaum told Hanson, she might want to inform Altman, still fully in charge of the Madison case, that such a transfer was possible under Fiske's charter. (Under oath, Nussbaum recalled suggesting this to Hanson, but insisted that he did so to help Altman get out of his conflict-of-interest problems...
...tribute to this country's multinational heritage. Not many people were rooting for Romania in the U.S.'s last game--say five percent of a packed stadium--but then again, the U.S. is the home team. Even when thousands of Argentinians tramp out to the stadium from their charter flights at the airport, they bring millions of tourist dollars that the economy sorely needs. These Argentinians are the same ones who have a nasty habit of throwing little pieces of paper all over the playing field. It's somehow supposed to simulate the atmosphere at their stadium back home...
Morale has only deteriorated further since then, opening opportunities -- and hazards -- for a new generation of independent labor organizers. In late February, two of those activists, law student Wang Jiaqi and Beijing University law professor Yuan Hongbing, wrote the founding charter for a new, free trade union, called the League for the Protection of Working People's Rights. Yuan and Wang were arrested March 2; Wang later escaped and is now in the U.S. The labor charter was presented to the Ministry of Civil Affairs March 9 by a third dissident, Liu Nianchun, a veteran of the 1979 Democracy Wall...
...jangling guitars, stomping drums and Hynde's voice -- soft one moment, steely the next -- it is assured, bare-knuckle rock 'n' roll. Part of the credit goes to the sturdy rhythm work of returning drummer Martin Chambers, an original Pretender who left the band in 1986 (the other two charter bandmates, James Honeyman Scott and Pete Farndon, died of drug overdoses...