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...attack was sudden, the aftermath wrenching -- a lovely young woman brought low, down on the floor, screaming and crying out, "Why? Why? It hurts so much. Why me?" Nancy Kerrigan, 24, the most accomplished and graceful of the current crop of U.S. figure skaters, had just finished a practice session for last week's national championships in Detroit, when a man approached her from behind. Wordlessly, without warning, he delivered a violent blow to her right leg with a clublike object. Some witnesses thought it was a crowbar, others a baseball bat. No one knows for sure because the assailant...
WERE THE EVENTUAL INVESTIGATIONS LESS VIGOROUS THAN THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN? In 1992, when Whitewater's name was starting to crop up in stories about Bill Clinton's campaign, Denver lawyer James Lyons did an audit, at Clinton's request, that to critics seemed highly inadequate. The RTC's referral of the case to Justice landed in Washington in the fall of 1992 -- just as Clinton was forging decisively ahead of George Bush in the presidential race. Justice officials were afraid they would be accused of a partisan effort to smear Clinton if they had Washington take over the investigation...
Harvard faces the cream of the Ivy League crop, Pennsylvania and Princeton, this Friday and Saturday respectively, and White said the whole team is looking forward to both contests...
...Freud's nudes, any more than some feminists do today. These figures, splayed under the inquisitorial electric light and the downward gaze of the artist, are the mainstay of his work, and the fierceness with which they reject the softening conventions of the "studio nude" has provoked a bumper crop of balderdash about Freud's supposed misogyny and sexism. (Freud's own riposte, in a recent interview, was terse: "I think the idea of misogyny is a stimulant to feminists, and it's rather like anti-Semites looking for Jewish noses everywhere...
...sitters take their own natural poses, rather than setting them up -- as well they might, given the arduous business of being painted for 80 sittings or more under the glare of the 200-watt bulbs in his studio. But whether by accident or design, flashbacks to past art do crop up regularly...