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...asked McGann earlier in the day if she would consider taking Morris back, but she made a persuasive case that hers was a thoughtful decision. Though she had missed Prime Time Live on Wednesday night, she knew that her husband had gone into Duke of Windsor mode, pledging on four networks to win back the woman he loves. While she was airborne over the Atlantic, he was recounting to Larry King how he had got a huge lump in his throat earlier that evening at the sight of pompano on the menu--because he and Eileen had discovered it together...
Slatkin, a baseball fan since childhood whose greatest sacrifice in moving to Washington has been giving up his St. Louis Cardinals season tickets, pointedly devoted his entire opening concert to music by such American composers as Bernstein, Howard Hanson and the Washington-born jazz icon Duke Ellington. "Because you are called the National Symphony," he says, "you have an obligation, not just out of a sense of duty but out of real love, to present the music of your own country. We should be thinking of our own repertoire in the same way that the Austrians view Mozart...
...Jones' supporters, the issue is whether the President is above the law. Duke law professor William Van Alstyne says a ruling for Clinton would be "monarchy on the installment plan." Jones' lawyers contend that her case is not about dollars--she has said she would give any damages money left after she paid her attorneys to charity--but reputation. "It's had an emotional toll on her that people are calling her a bimbo, trailer-park trash, a gold digger," says Jones' lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, who argues she should not have to wait until 2001 to begin clearing her name...
...Microsoft press event in Manhattan. She was working for the company and later became one of the executives in charge of interactive content. Their daughter Jennifer was born last April. Melinda, 32, is no longer at Microsoft, and she is active in charity work and on the board of Duke, where she studied computer science as an undergraduate and then got a graduate degree in business. Like Gates, she is smart and independent. Like his mother, she is also friendly and social, with an easy manner of organizing trips and activities. But she zealously guards her privacy and doesn...
...hour, uncut ?Hamlet,? " says TIME's Richard Corliss, "he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award." Here's the most eclectic cast in movie history -- Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen -- in the second longest film released by a major studio (after ?Cleopatra?). To his credit, the actor-director-adapter approached this job not as a solemn duty or an egotistical stunt, but in the sensible belief that the greatest work in dramatic literature...