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...House of Blues has acquired real estate and begun construction on sites in Los Angeles and New Orleans, and the club plans to open both sites on New Year's Eve. Club officials also talk of expanding into Chicago, New York City and London...
...their fatwa: "Those of us from the Moslem part of this world cannot accept the notion that democratic freedoms should be abrogated to protect Islam." He has inveighed against Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Hafez Assad in Syria. The "traditional discourse" of Arab nationalism, he wrote on the eve of the Gulf War, is "unresponsive, anomalous, even comic." The Arab media are "a disgrace," incapable of dealing with "life in the Arab world today with its terrible inequities, its self-inflicted wounds, its crushing mediocrity in science and many cultural fields." In sum, if Said is the Arab world...
...Dole's appearance on the Tonight Show last Thursday, though certainly less absurd than either Quayle's or Clinton's, clinches a disturbing trend. It demonstrates the complete erosion of the barrier between entertainment and politics. Dole has no ongoing campaign to blame; on the eve of a potentially bruising political fight he resorted not to the newspapers, nor even to Nightline, but to Ted Koppel's fluffy ratings competitor...
...sources familiar with the case said last week that Manufacturers Hanover was tipped off in December, 1990, to what one source called "ethical problems" with Young's handling of a Colombian debt deal in November, 1990. As a result, Young was forced to resign on Christmas Eve of that year, and he lost a Christmas bonus of an unspecified amount...
...less unbecoming in time of war when every able body is needed; and harassment, intimidation and administrative discharges for gays and lesbians increase when the shooting stops. That employment practice was especially evident from the late '70s through the '80s, when the draft was replaced by volunteerism. On the eve of the Reagan Administration, Deputy Secretary of Defense Graham Claytor Jr., once law clerk of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, laid the groundwork for the Pentagon's current antigay policy. The essence contained in a Joint Chiefs of Staff statement was that "homosexuality is incompatible with military service...