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SPEND SOME TIME talking with designer Kara Ross about her jewelry collection, and it's hard to miss her repeated use of the words light and movement. Just one glance at a table filled with her golf-ball-size rock-crystal-quartz rings and Maltese crosses, and it's clear that this 40-year-old mother of four likes the kind of jewelry that starts conversations. But don't be fooled. ?They might seem big, but they move,? she says, standing in her sunny, cramped home office that serves as a make-shift showroom...
...once a press secretary for Texas Congressman Tom DeLay. In the agreement, Scanlon acknowledged that he and "Lobbyist A" (Abramoff) showered "Representative #1" (Ohio Congressman Bob Ney) and his staff with lavish trips, tickets to sporting events and concerts, sports-arena boxes for fund raisers, campaign contributions, golf outings and free meals at Abramoff's "upscale restaurant," Signatures. The plea agreement alleges that Ney, chairman of the House Administration Committee, provided "official acts and influence," including introducing legislation, and giving a leg up to an Abramoff client's bid to install cell-phone antennas in the House buildings. It also...
...that investigators had been inquiring into Abramoff's dealings with DeLay, who has had to give up his House majority leader post as he fights unrelated conspiracy and money-laundering charges in Texas. They have looked into an expensive 2000 junket that Abramoff arranged for DeLay that included a golf outing at Scotland's famed St. Andrews course. But over the past decade, Abramoff and Scanlon spread money and favors across Capitol Hill. The list of lawmakers who weighed in on the partners' side on one project--blocking the planned casino of a tribal client's rival--totaled at least...
...voice? The voice is such a mystery. It is hard to diagnose if something goes wrong. No one really knows what happened to Callas' voice when it went. But I am now at a point where I can trust my voice better. It is like a tennis or a golf player; you have to trust in your technique. Singing in a high range, like [in Strauss's] Daphne, is a risk, but risk is exciting. That is what audiences want. In 1998 you were booed at La Scala but returned to perform at the opera house SEVEN months later...
DIED. MIKE AUSTIN, 95, golfer who slammed a 515-yd. drive in a Las Vegas senior tournament in 1974, setting a record for the longest drive in a pro-golf tournament; in Los Angeles. Despite dramatic advances in club technology, his feat, accomplished at 64, still holds...