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...weeks it has seemed that Cedras' contempt for the U.S. was matched only by the Clinton Administration's ambivalence over whether the Haitian leader could be shoved from power by force of argument or force of arms. Last week senior Administration officials staked out policy positions far in front of a President who has not yet made up his mind. "One way or another, the de facto government is going to be leaving," declared Secretary of State Warren Christopher. "Their days are definitely numbered...
...generally hold nothing but contempt for Harvard liberals, but I'd like to grudgingly praise them for their recognition that what we teach in our schools is in fact a political question. What I hate is their crass politicization of the whole process of learning. Another day, another editorial...
...life in Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me (Random House; 568 pages; $25), Marlon Brando, aided by journalist Robert Lindsey, strikes a pose of injured innocence: he is a sweet-spirited, mischievous man- child who accidentally fell first into acting, then into fame and finally into self-contempt, and at 70 remains "an enigma to myself in a world that still bewilders me." That observation pretty well sums up the level of self- awareness (and self-revelation) he achieves in his book...
...refused to testify before a grand jury investigating O.J. Simpson's friend Al Cowlings was thrown in the slammer for contempt of court. John Dunton claims he would be afraid for his life if he testified. In one TV interview, Dunton said he had secondhand information that three people may have been at Nicole Brown Simpson's condo the night she and her friend Ronald Goldman were slain. BTW: Dunton has twice been convicted of forgery and has been deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial in another case.. . . AND ANOTHER YET TO SURFACE? The Los Angeles police are intensifying...
...refused to testify the grand jury investigating Al Cowlings is being held in contempt of court. The man, identified by the Associated Press as John Dunton, says through his attorney that he fears for his life...