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...from Empower America at his home in Manhattan. Things started out cordially, but before long, a dispute broke out over abortion, with Robertson challenging Bennett's call for more restrictions on the practice. Bennett showed no deference to a potential benefactor. At one point, as Bennett was arguing, Forstmann kept trying to interrupt: "Bill...Bill...Bill..." To which Bennett replied, "Forget it, Ted, the money's gone by now." Forstmann icily explained that he wasn't thinking of Robertson's money, but of the expensive and fragile chair Bennett was rocking on its back legs. "Now Ted," Bennett retorted...
...Lonergan weren't just the best two runners on the team, they were two of the best runners in the league. Carswell won Heps and came in 17th in the NCAAs, earning All-American status. Lonergan, healthy for the first time in years, came in ninth in Heps and kept on improving over the winter...
JERUSALEM: Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin made a secret promise to President Clinton that Israel would return the entire Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for peace, a prominent Israeli journalist said Wednesday. Rabin even kept the pledge secret from then-foreign minister Shimon Peres, Orly Azulai-Katz wrote in a new book about Peres, excerpts of which were printed in the Yediot Ahronot daily on Wednesday. Azulai-Katz says Peres was upset when he found out about the deal after he took office. "Look at what Rabin did to me, and people say I'm not trustworthy...
That two retellings are coming out at once is, according to all concerned, quite coincidental. Both new volumes were created by respected figures in children's literature, men in their 50s who were read Sambo when they were young but who'd kept it out of the hands of their offspring. "As a child, I liked the little boy and the story but I felt very bad about how he was depicted," says Julius Lester, an African-American writer who, along with illustrator Jerry Pinkney, also black, has reconfigured the book as Sam and The Tigers (Dial). "The original...
Krauthammer's most vociferous critics demanded equal rights for all. "Evidently, gay Americans are to be kept around to work and pay taxes but lack those human qualities that would permit them to marry," wrote Steven M. Ferre, 32, a contract manager for a health-insurance firm in Washington. Ferre, who is gay and currently without a partner, has seen relationships fail because the logical next step--marriage--was not an option. "It's difficult to stay in a relationship if you can't get married," he says. "It becomes very easy to cut your losses and move...