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...incidents like that at Dhahran are not to occur and if the region is to remain stable, the U.S. must act with care as it rapidly expands its permanent presence. Is the U.S. properly sophisticated about these matters? Comments after the bombing by General Kurt Anderson, commander of the Joint Task Force Southwest Asia, are not encouraging. Asked why Americans were attacked, Anderson said, "I can't tell you why somebody would want to target us." Further questioned about Islamic antipathy for the American presence in Saudi Arabia, Anderson said, "I can tell you my experience throughout all of Saudi...
Starr's major coup last week was to get Washington to tear itself away from the fang baring on Capitol Hill and take note of the opening of the second Whitewater trial in Little Rock, Arkansas. Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert Hill, joint owners of a bank in microscopic Perryville, Arkansas (pop. 1,141), are charged with illegally channeling funds to Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign. The two men allegedly failed to notify the irs that they let Clinton's campaign withdraw $30,000 at one time--banks must report any cash transaction over $10,000--by disguising the withdrawal...
...clubs that form the foundation for this new empire effect the rundown look and feel of a backwater juke joint, but folk art and antique guitars decorate their walls. A dozen color-TV monitors provide close-ups of the action on stage. The menu offers a melange of Southern dishes, from smothered chicken to spicy quesadillas. The performers are sometimes just as varied: such established blues acts as Bonnie Raitt and Muddy Waters, rockers like Bruce Springsteen, even reggae star Ziggy Marley. The Los Angeles club has developed such a hot reputation among mainstream musicians that the artist formerly known...
...down atmosphere seems downright phony to some critics--especially to the owners and devotees of older, established blues clubs that are competing with HOB franchises. "The House of Blues has taken a pretty big chunk of the blues market," laments Bill Benoit, entertainment manager at the Tam, a blues joint in Brookline, Massachusetts, near Cambridge. "They have the name, and they have the power to book bigger acts more regularly, but there's also sort of a prepackaged feel that goes with the club...
Instead, the union and the University have established a Standing Joint Labor/Management Committee for Dining Services. The committee will seek innovative ways to make Harvard Dining Services (HDS) more efficient, so the operation can stay competitive without contracting out, according to union officials...