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Ashong plays his part with real emotional depth, conveying the battle between his better instincts towards his family, his troubled history, and the easy path provided by his $60,000 job at the radio station. "When you are a personality," he tells Willie with veiled self-contempt, "You don't have to have a personality...
...losses in two state elections and became Rao's principal political rival--accusing him, among other shortcomings, of failing to tackle widespread corruption. The party's disciplinary-action committee ousted him last week for ``serious breach of discipline.'' ASSETS FROZEN. Of CHRISTOPHER LINGLE, 46, American economics professor convicted of contempt last month for having written an article that allegedly criticized the Singapore government; by Singapore's Supreme Court. The court's order prevents Lingle, who left his fellowship at a Singapore university and returned to the U.S. before the trial, from removing some $20,000 in savings and pension accounts...
...Limbaugh's factual transgressions, his contempt for intelligent debate and his impact on the congressional power structure are significantly exacerbated by his blurring of the lines between entertainment and news. Currently he floats somewhere between David Letterman and Ted Koppel, Tom Brokaw and Howard Stern. In this gray area, he has set aside journalistic responsibility, cloaking himself in the guise of a pure entertainer...
...Attorney General Chan's opinion, the case was never about freedom of speech. ``Lingle sees it as an attempt to intimidate him,'' he said at the trial. ``It is nothing of the kind. He has simply committed contempt of court by alleging the Singapore judiciary is compliant...
...innocent young Irish girl is seduced and later finds herself in a family way. Rather than face the anger of her father and brothers and the contempt of her friends and neighbors, she runs away to search for her lover, who has departed without leaving a precise forwarding address. This tale, of course, has had many tellings; it's hard to think of an Irish writer who hasn't tackled it. Yet in Felicia's Journey (Viking; 213 pages), William Trevor makes his heroine's plight and flight seem entirely original. Which is exactly the way it appears to Felicia...