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...fodder for future fund-raisers. Take an ordinary supper in the dining hall of my college (colleges are like Harvard houses, except that Oxford has about 40 of them). The hall is about 500 years old and is bedecked with portraits of famous alumni and old Masters: Harold Wilson, Clement Attlee, Bill Clinton...
DIED. NARCISCO YEPES, 69, classical Spanish guitarist who redesigned his beloved instrument, adding four strings, to accommodate his technical prowess; of cancer; in Murcia, Spain. Fans took to Yepes' theme song to Rene Clement's Forbidden Games (1951), but his peers never accepted his 10-stringed fingerboard--despite the enhanced resonance under his deft touch...
...climate record shows that the whole 8,000-year span of human civilization, from the dawn of cities to space flight, has taken place during a period of extraordinary warmth and stability. The past 150 years, which have seen the industrial and information ages, have been even more remarkably clement. The experience has left humanity with the notion that climate is warm and stable. But those who look at the past know different. "Climate is an angry beast," says Lamont's Wallace Broeker, "and we are poking it with sticks...
...Clement is a conservative--he backed acts to streamline the Federal Railroad Administration and the FAA and cut the capital-gains tax--but he also supported Democratic budget-balancing measures and Clinton's veto of a $16.4 billion spending cut. He is one of the strongest Democrats in the state...
BORN: Sept. 13, 1962, Nashville EDUCATION: Belmont College, B.S., 1985 FAMILY: Wife, Melissa; two children RELIGION: Christian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Teacher POLITICAL CAREER: Independent candidate for U.S. House, 1992 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 146, Antioch 37011. Tel.: 615-355-9378 When Edmondson ran against Bob Clement in 1992, he was an Independent. Now he has the Republican nomination, but is still a considerable underdog. His campaign has four themes: reducing the Federal Government, promoting traditional biblical values, tax reform, and congressional reform, including a 10% congressional pay cut, a 25% reduction of personal staff and eliminating congressional pensions and unsolicited mass...