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...Year" award was established in 1963, 12 years after the creation of its female counterpart. Past recipients of the awards include Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Paul Newman, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford...
...Fosse had a pop-culture counterpart, it was Billy Wilder, Hollywood's cynic in chief. Indeed, his Double Indemnity would have made a perfect Fosse show, for both men were drawn to seamy stories like a fly to manure: Sweet Charity is about a prostitute manque, Chicago two murderesses, and the film version of Cabaret, Fosse's greatest achievement, is a veritable saturnalia of sexual variation. And while the fatalistic Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries is Fosse's unlikely theme song, some of the cherries in this particular bowl are unnervingly sour. Robbins and Fred Astaire may have...
WASHINGTON: Suddenly, there is hope for the Senate. Standing together in front of a bank of microphones, Majority Leader Trent Lott and his Democratic counterpart, Tom Daschle, took turns assuring reporters they were doing their best to bring bipartisanship back from the brink in time for the trial. Both men were optimistic about a full Senate get-together Friday morning, but the sticking point still stuck -- Daschle held firm to his caucus's stand against witnesses, while Lott refused to rule them out. The "98 other senators" that Lott referred to so ominously will have a lot to talk about...
...Lott too was dusting off procedures not used on a President since Andrew Johnson in 1868. Lott met quietly with Tom Daschle, his Democratic counterpart, to discuss how to keep things civil should a trial get under way next year. Last week some Senators began to discuss the possibility that a censure deal could be cut after the House votes. Under this scenario, Clinton might be impeached by the House but then offer to accept censure, a fine and some written statement rather than face trial in the Senate. That way the Republicans could ink their black mark...
...response to comments made by councillors that other university towns and cities are litigating these matters, Power said she had talked to her counterpart at Stanford University and learned that Palo Alto has not sued Stanford for property taxes on this basis...