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...White House announcement last Friday lends itself to many interpretations, each carrying its own degree of cynicism: Was it a good-faith effort by Clinton to cut through the thicket of circumstantial evidence, Secret Service recollections and secondhand testimony by offering a firsthand account? Or was it a feint to give the appearance of cooperation and compliance that will ensure that Starr gets the blame when the President ultimately refuses to talk...
...human face on a damning study by the General Accounting Office that will be the subject of hearings by the Committee on Aging this week. The panel has summoned two insiders--a former California nursing-home nurse and a current nursing-home inspector for the state--to offer firsthand accounts of the horrors. The women--called "Clara B." and "Florence N." by the committee--will speak from behind a screen to shield them from retaliation by the powerful nursing-home industry and the agency that provides care to California's elderly...
...Ameritech Illinois, is chairman of the Education to Careers committee of the Mayor's Workforce Board in Chicago. It brings businessmen, teachers and administrators together to plan curriculums that will prepare students for the jobs employers need to fill. It also brings teachers into offices and plants to observe firsthand what their students need to learn. "You'd be amazed how ill prepared the schools were," says Whitley...
...course (and speaking firsthand, obviously), reevaluation is easier said than done. It's simpler to put our lives on auto-pilot and not stop to consider what we're doing and where we really want to go. We know we can excel at doing what's expected of us, what we're told is worthwhile. We've been doing that all our lives. It's asking whether those things are what we really want--and being true to ourselves if the answer is no--which is more difficult...
...expertly and exquisitely worked into jewelry, drinking vessels, urns and other objects. Many of these treasures have been recovered during the past quarter-century from digs all over the Balkans, and now, for the first time, people in the U.S. have a chance to see some of them firsthand. An exhibition titled "Ancient Gold: The Wealth of the Thracians" made its debut in St. Louis and opens next week at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; in July it will travel to San Francisco, New Orleans, Memphis, Tenn., and Boston before ending up in Detroit in June...