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...find him an identical substitute. When one of Washington's hot restaurants, the Palm, was slow to put up Deutch's caricature among more than a thousand portraits of the city's political elite, Deutch had aides and relatives pester the manager with phone calls until the picture was hung...
...federation by the end of week. That's a very important part of these talks -- and there's still a lot of haggling between Croatia's Franjo Tudjman and Bosnia's Alija Izetbegovic -- but that's minor compared to the difficulties in sorting out the Bosnian/Serb agreement. That's hung up on things like the status of Sarajevo and territorial issues like the corridor between Sarajevo and Goradze. It has been slow going this week and with the hard work beginning Christopher is going to apply more pressure to all sides...
...betters. Amis, however, whose education was interrupted by four years of service in the Royal Corps of Signals during World War II, returned to Oxford with no intention of kowtowing to the prevailing dogmas. He and his friend Philip Larkin, another scholarship boy who went on to literary renown, hung out in pubs, listened to American jazz and privately mocked the arty, Bloomsbury pretensions of their dons. Amis' skill at mimicry flowered in Larkin's appreciative presence: "Kingsley's masterpiece, which was so demanding I heard him do it only twice, involved three subalterns, a Glaswegian driver and a jeep...
However, the fun was not limited to the men. Amelia H. Kaplan '96-'97, was "Bert," an auto-repairman. She wore a one-piece blue uniform, a Super Bowl baseball cap backwards, a long black wig and a considerable beer belly. A limp cigarette hung from her fingers...
...trials opened, and without the glare of courtroom television coverage. In Los Angeles prosecutors began their retrial of Lyle and Erik Menendez on charges of having murdered their parents; the prior prosecution of the brothers, who claim they were driven to kill by years of sexual abuse, ended in hung juries. In Houston, Yolanda Saldivar went on trial for the murder of Tejano singing star Selena. The former president of Selena's fan club, Saldivar claims the shooting was an accident...