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...early heads-up, which came four days before Tripp herself called Starr's deputy Jackie Bennett, would have allowed Starr more time to craft his strategy to get jurisdiction over the Lewinsky angle. And it also would have lengthened the period in which Starr was looking into the Jones case without first receiving permission from Reno, a serious problem given the Independent Counsel Act's tough rules against free-lance investigating. Starr's spokesman Charles Bakaly denies that the office began probing before Tripp called. But last week David Kendall, the President's private attorney, sent a letter to Reno...
...signal virtue and surest proof of Harvey's talent is that, despite an expansive range of pitches and moods, her craft always combines precision with personality; like a jeweler or carpenter, she preserves the integrity of each song with specific and taut strokes, but incorporates enough elements of personal style--distorted vocals, plodding bass or cavernous echo--that the artist cannot be misidentified. "My Beautiful Leah," in which a phlegmy and diseased voice seeks clues to track the route of an aban-doing lover, lumbers thick and ungainly as a sauropod; "The Garden," by contrast, lilts and whispers like...
...Harvard Square vendors fared equally well. While food and craft sellers saw especially high sales, Oktoberfest was just another Sunday for many retail stores...
That patience pays off. DS1 will carry a mere 180 lbs. of xenon fuel, about one-tenth the fuel needed for a conventional craft. Electricity required to power thrusters and other equipment will come from a new solar panel equipped with 720 lenses that focus sunlight down to a strip of solar cells...
...ocean's surface; the five aquanauts spent two weeks in an underwater laboratory off the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1970. She has gone on at least 50 expeditions and spent more than 6,000 hours undersea, including a record-setting solo descent to 3,000 ft. in a submersible craft known as Deep Rover. In the 1979 dive that gave her the royal nickname, she became the mirror image, and the equal, of the moonwalkers...