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Certainly, Hedy, a senior citizen who works at the CVS drug store across the street from the Central Square Woolworth, said she had no plans to buy any Nike Air Jordans...
Governor Weld is now Citizen Weld after resigning his post to (unsuccessfully) face-off with Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) over his nomination by President Clinton to the Ambassadorship to Mexico. The charming, intelligent and popular New Englander was quickly shown the door by the poster-boy for the conservative agenda. Remarkably, the steamrollering of this one-time G.O.P. rising star by Helms generated only an outcry of deafening silence from his fellow Republicans in control of the Senate. This Capitol Hill embarrassment comes within a year of his failed attempt to unseat incumbent Senator John Kerry (D-Mass...
...They were told the federation was short of cash. They suggested funneling $150,000 of Teamster money through the federation--and into Carey coffers. Trumka agreed, according to federal investigators. On Nov. 1, a Teamster check went to the AFL-CIO, which passed it on, three days later, to Citizen Action, a small liberal activist organization. On Nov. 6, Citizen Action paid $100,000 to a company handling Carey's direct-mail campaign, according to testimony from the case in which three Carey aides pleaded guilty. Sources close to the investigation say the FBI is focusing not only on Trumka...
Getting medical supplies into Bosnia is one thing, but getting a 40-ft. motorized lemon-disco-ball spaceship into Sarajevo is another. But U2 managed to pull it off--with the U.N.'s help--when the band, fulfilling a promise made by lead singer and honorary Bosnian citizen BONO, staged a full PopMart concert in the city, which doesn't even have running water 24 hours a day. "We offered them a scratch gig, a benefit concert, and they didn't want that. They wanted PopMart," says Bono. "They've a mad sense of humor." The concert didn...
...custody of two officers. This outrage comes at a time when crime rates in New York have been plummeting and the credit has rightfully been flowing to the hard-working men in blue. However, in the wake of the Louima incident, cops all over the city have faced angry citizen protests...