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There is a name for writers who claim privileged access to the inner workings of people they describe. The name is novelist. And it is impossible to read the released portion of McGinniss's book without feeling set adrift in a muddled and decidedly fictional realm. The introductory chunk purports to follow Ted Kennedy from the assassination of his brother John, on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, through the President's funeral and burial the following Monday. The events of these four days were exhaustively rehearsed in William Manchester's The Death of a President (1967); McGinniss acknowledges his indebtedness...
...kids and to see my colleagues do something from the heart," says Baltimore flutist Mark Sparks, the main force behind his orchestra's program. And if minority audiences will not come to the symphony, the symphony will go to + them. The Los Angeles Philharmonic offers free concerts in inner-city neighborhoods and, in the wake of the 1992 riots, gave a special free performance at a black church in South Central...
...White House has its Situation Room, the Pentagon its walls full of maps, but America's command center for fighting unconventional wars these days is Janet Reno's inner office. First it was the showdown with David Koresh in Waco, Texas, a biblical battle over lost souls; two weeks ago, it was terrorism, when she laid out for President Clinton the case against Iraq for plotting to kill former President Bush and tracked the serial bomber who wounded professors in Connecticut and California. Last week it was Sheik Rahman, when once again Reno's agents from...
Salem was part of the inner circle around Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind, fiery Egyptian cleric who has been spiritual mentor both to the accused World Trade Center bombers and to members of the new ring. In fact Salem served for a time as Abdel Rahman's bodyguard. He is said to have turned informant partly for money (the FBI reportedly has recommended that he be given a $250,000 bonus for his help), but largely because he thought terrorist killings were betraying, not furthering, the cause of Islam and were likely to prompt a worldwide backlash against Muslims...
...Riordan brings a new governing equation to the country's most diverse city. Bradley's liberal, biracial coalition of suburban whites and inner-city blacks has been replaced by a surprisingly multi-ethnic conservative coalition. While Riordan's strongest support came from the largely white San Fernando Valley, he won slices of minority votes as well. In some mixed central-city districts where Bradley used to count on more than 90%, Riordan won 40% of Latinos, 20% of blacks and even a third of Asians...