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...same reason--a desire for historians' esteem--motivated a less praiseworthy decision. Bush granted six Iran-contra defendants--one of whom was former secretary of defense and current perjurer Caspar W. Weinberger '38--executive clemency on Christmas Eve. Whether their actions were right or wrong didn't matter, he maintained, because the six were patriots, and it's wrong punish people for loving their country. Of course, that the pardons prevented six sticky trials which would have likely reveal the extent of Bush's participation in the scandals probably contributed to the outgoing president's decision. He could...
HUMAN-RIGHTS VIOLATIONS and military secrets notwithstanding, George Bush just loves to do business with the Chinese. According to officials in his own Department of Defense, he's still at it, right to the end. Pentagon technology watchdogs were appalled to learn on the eve of Commerce Secretary Barbara / Franklin's trade trip to Beijing that her department had cleared the way for the Chinese military to buy 15 jet engines made by Garrett, a division of Allied-Signal. Not only would the sale enhance China's military capability, but it could further destabilize the Middle East by extending...
...bourgeois German household has been banished in favor of an American apartment decorated in 1960s high tacky. The Stahlbaum children get a giant Barbie doll and a spaceman at their family Christmas Eve party. The guests are dressed in the worst excesses of a quarter-century ago, and before long they are drunk and lubricious. Postmodern choreographer Mark Morris, never at a loss for a flip word or gesture, insists that his take on the Tchaikovsky classic is not a send-up, but that is exactly what it is -- rude, boisterous and more than a little, well, nutty...
...WILL THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AND THE FIRST LADY-IN-waiting celebrate the last night of 1992? The same way they have spent every New Year's Eve since 1981, when Bill and Hillary Clinton joined fellow rising stars at Hilton Head Island for a RENAISSANCE WEEKEND of high-minded chat and a chance to bask in one another's glow. Sound like fun? This year a mob of 1,200 pols and aspiring Friends of Bill are clamoring for invitations to the exclusive camp, where 100 favored families will take part in seminars that last year ranged from "Our Fragile...
...Lozano family believes that in light ofDr. Bean-Bayog's recent resignation on the eve ofher prosecution by the Board of Registrationtogether with this settlement, justice has beenserved," read a statement released by the Lozanosthrough the Boston law firm of Lubin and Meyer