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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House phase that no witnesses were necessary because the record was so complete. "It's interesting to me that the House is asking for witnesses in the Senate trial that they did not want to call in the House," Utah's Bob Bennett, a staunch conservative and no Clinton friend, told TIME. "What could we learn from witnesses that the House did not need to learn...
...surprised several weeks ago at dinner when a friend of mine, the writer Ted Morgan, born French as Sanche de Gramont but years ago Americanized, launched into a rhapsody about professional football. Ted, whose Sundays are lost from September to Super Bowl, loves what he calls "the beauty" of pro football--its power, its grace, its intelligence. Ted explains that football is a symbolic re-enactment of America's westward conquest of territory--while baseball is a "post-settlement" enterprise in which each team by turns pacifically yields the field to the other...
Wilson's biography, by contrast, offers a straightforward, scholarly account of the cellist's life. Barenboim not only urged Wilson, a family friend, to write the book but also shared his papers with her and even read her manuscript before it was published. Drawing on scores of interviews with people who knew Du Pre, Wilson tracks her career and scrupulously reconstructs all her performances. But the author doesn't completely shy away from salacious matters. She mentions the affair and notes that Du Pre also felt abandoned by Barenboim, who cared for her when she was ill but, during...
Clinton and Starr are linked like my dog and his fleas. My pet serves as a watchdog and friend; Clinton does his job as a leader tackling difficult problems. My dog's fleas do nothing but irritate him and me. Starr's investigations have only done harm to the body politic. Let him flee the judgment of history. PAUL J. LAROCCA East Hartford, Conn...
...consider her a very close colleague and friend," he said. "I'm going to miss her very, very much...