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...partisan campaign to distract attention from his investigation of the President and the Democrats. But Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republican leaders are concerned that Burton does not have the probity of a prime-time presidential prosecutor. They fear that the pressure on Burton, who once re-enacted Vince Foster's death by shooting bullets into "a headlike object" in his own backyard, may provoke the chairman into saying or doing something else that could discredit the investigation. Sources close to the Speaker tell TIME that Gingrich is so concerned about Burton's reputation that he has assigned two members...
...Ethnicity, Geography and Gender, the three factors used by Clinton to select nominees. Those characteristics still count, but sheer desperation to avoid any hint of S--for Scandal--has nearly choked the process to a halt. Burned by an outspoken Joycelyn Elders and a bumbling Henry Foster, Clinton has yet to name a Surgeon General. The Administration is dawdling even on routine appointments such as the promotion of David Lipton from Treasury Assistant Secretary to Undersecretary...
...Jodie Foster's brother earn the nickname Buddy? In his book Foster Child, Buddy Foster explores Jodie's sex life, their mother's affair with a woman and many family secrets. Last week the actress called her brother "a distant acquaintance motivated solely by greed and sour grapes." He's no Buddy...
...short trailer or be miniaturized and slipped into a Happy Meal. "Heroes have to be drawn according to more conventional terms," says Hollywood Reporter columnist Martin Grove. "When you have these huge-event pictures with megabudgets, villains become the jewels in the crown." Sure, heroes like Jodie Foster in the sci-fi film Contact or Samuel L. Jackson in the drama 187 catch our eye. But when the villains start scheming, that's when summer starts...
Anthropology concentrator Elizabeth Harman '97 challenged the assumption that African art has value only when free from Western influence in her thesis, according to her advisor, J. Lorand Matory, Foster associate professor of anthropology and of Afro-American studies...