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President Clinton will have to make huundreds of appointments in the executive branch and the federal courts. The foremost among these appointments might be on a Supreme Court that is veering off to the right at (relatively) breakneck speed...
...First of all, you have two of the top teams in the nation going at it," said Biscardi. "So first and foremost, it's a good hockey matchup...
...prosecutor refused to prosecute, concluding that nudity without lewd behavior was not illegal. The university then banned nudity. Martinez persisted, until some female students charged that his behavior constituted sexual harassment. That did it. "Yes, we're a bastion of free expression," a university spokesman explained. "But first and foremost we're a bastion of higher education." Thrown out of school, Martinez plans to write a book about his experience...
...novel (Random House; $21). "She loves me, but I've taken away her life," she says of her daughter. "She will want to put me behind her, as I should have let her do years ago." Years ago and books ago. Brookner has built a reputation as Britain's foremost novelist of sensibility. Her books are true to their subjects and scrupulously written. But there comes a time when rebellion flares in the reader, who knows by now that it will take the daughter the entire narrative to escape. Her course will be unmarked by episode, and like many other...
While Strobe has gone from being an editor at large to being an ambassador at large, the focus of his attention has not changed. He is one of the country's foremost experts on Russia and the other states of the former U.S.S.R. He learned Russian at Hotchkiss, majored in Russian literature at Yale, and wrote a master's thesis on that subject at Oxford. Clinton first witnessed Talbott's expertise 24 years ago when he and Strobe, both Rhodes scholars, shared a sparsely furnished row house at Oxford University. Clinton often recalled watching Strobe translate Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs...