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...against their bosses for allegedly cracking down on them when they tried to expose waste and fraud. The suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington, claims the RTC has systematically targeted employees who testified before Congress, cooperated with General Accounting Office probes or alerted the agency's inspector general about problems...
...neither interviewed nor deposed by special prosecutor Fiske, now faces additional questions about his role. So Cutler could prepare for the hearings, last weekend Bentsen turned over to him copies of interviews with Altman, Hanson and White House aide George Stephanopoulos that had been conducted by the Treasury's inspector general -- this before the I.G.'s report had been completed. Sherman Funk, a veteran inspector general in Washington, called Bentsen's action "totally inappropriate...
...Tony Award front runner for best revival and best set -- a category rarely won by a straight play -- is the London import An Inspector Calls, a drawing- room melodrama exploded into a streetscape of urban despair. The opening scenes are daringly played inside an enclosed mini-mansion that gradually opens and finally topples, a metaphor for the collapse of capitalism. Brilliant as the effect is, one wonders whether the creators realize what economic system actually did fall apart in recent years...
...Postal Inspector Michael Kmetz, as quoated in yesterday's New York Times Magazine. Kmetz was referring to a set of counterfeit postage stamps now in circulation bearing likenesses of Fisher and Tonya Harding, among others...
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) and her team take no voyeuristic pleasure from grotesque events they uncover. Nor do they condescend unduly to the queens and pawns in their investigation. The cops are just doing a job -- one that makes their off-duty lives look drab and irrelevant. Scenes of Tennison's wan private life are mere leavening agents in the acrid yet tangy melodrama that is her life on the force -- the only life she has, really...