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...course, election-year politics leave Archer little room for more sole searching. The flap isn't likely to cost him many votes, but the longer it plays out, the more embarrassing it is for the city. In one meeting, Archer urged Guyton to drum up more community support so that the administration could back the project more forcefully. "You need to take off your artist cap and put on your business hat," he said...
...singer-songwriters, writing primarily from a feminist point of view. On her hit song Bitch, Meredith Brooks declares that she wants to "reclaim a word that had taken on a really derogatory meaning." But ideology or no, these women are unafraid to celebrate their own sensuality. On the inside flap of her album, Jewel poses in a sexy yellow swimsuit...
...daughter of sportscaster Frank Gifford), allegedly kept up a five-year affair with his children's baby sitter, starting when she was 14. The young woman, daughter of a prominent Massachusetts entrepreneur, has not commented on the matter, but prosecutors are investigating the statutory-rape allegations. Meanwhile, the new flap won't help Michael's brother Joseph, who has his eye on the Massachusetts governorship. Joseph's reputation is already taking a beating, thanks to a tell-all book by ex-wife Sheila Rauch Kennedy...
...federal courthouse in Denver. "Air space over the court house is off limits, and if you stop to talk on the corner outside the courthouse, police tell you to keep moving." Jury selection is expected to conclude Tuesday, with opening statements to begin on Thursday. Despite the recent flap over evidence treatment at the FBI's Crime lab, Cole says the prosecution's strategy should remain essentially unchanged. Once significant alteration: Prosecutors have dropped as a witness David Williams, the head of the FBI explosives unit who concluded the blast was caused by an ammonium nitrate-fuel oil bomb...
From his vantage point in Rome, where he has lived for two years, Leavitt views the Esquire flap with a mixture of irritation and bemusement. "I wish the story had been published," he says, sipping a cup of cappuccino at a Neapolitan cafe near the Chamber of Deputies. "I think it would have gotten a lot of attention as a story, and not as a news story." He doubts that any automobile ads would have been pulled from the magazine if his story had appeared in its pages. "Do you know how many gay men own Jeeps...