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...distinguish you. Firebombing meat and leather outlets, using pipe bombs on a fur-trading office and setting minks free, however--as Straight Edgers and closely linked animal liberationists have been accused of doing over the past several years--tend to drop you from consideration for membership in the church choir...
...most ardent adversaries has found himself a choirgirl. Unfortunately, she's not his wife. Rumors have been flying that former Speaker of the House NEWT GINGRICH, 56, was involved with CALLISTA BISEK, 33, a staff member on the House Agriculture Committee and singer in a church choir, well before he filed for divorce from his second wife Marianne. (His first wife was his geometry teacher.) Now Marianne's lawyers have been granted the right to take a videotaped deposition from Bisek as part of the divorce proceedings. "Marianne is prepared to thoroughly investigate Mr. Gingrich's personal life as well...
...fiscal discipline of future governments -? neither one of which you ought to be betting the farm on -? and now both sides are headed home for a one-month recess to make their case. TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says each side will be preaching to the choir. "Democrats will make the argument that?s been successful with their base thus far -- Clinton is saving Medicare and paying down the debt, and Republicans are merely helping the rich." They?ve got a point: According to the Treasury Department, the middle 60 percent of American families would have gotten 33 percent...
NADYA LABI worked in a rural school in South Africa, teaching English and conducting the girls' choir, before joining TIME International in 1995. Now a staff writer at TIME, she tells a story this week about a music teacher in New York City who works with underprivileged children, selected by lottery, at public schools. Labi used to study violin, but says her "fingers could never quite master the vibrato." She became a journalistic prodigy instead, mastering subjects ranging from grief counseling to the Tae-Bo phenomenon. But Labi, who sang soprano in choir as an undergraduate at Harvard...
...flavor of the piece, while at the same time challenging the performers to smoothly transition from these solos into the more classical feel of the orchestral sections. Also in the second half of the performance the BSO invited some talented young musicians to perform with them: a children's choir joined the orchestra for Orff's "Carmina Burana" and several talented high school brass players came on stage for Respighi's "Pines of Rome...