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...BOSNIA AND BOB DOLE WEREN'T ENOUGH, NOW Bill Clinton had to contend with a depression. Leon Panetta's depression, that is. On the 97th day of the Administration's first 100, as Cabinet colleagues burnished their leader's record, the Office of Management and Budget head volunteered that Clinton's North American Free Trade Agreement was "dead" in Congress, his Russian-aid request endangered, and even parts of his huge budget proposal threatened unless he "defines his priorities." Panetta's suggested definition: Postpone introducing Hillary's health plan until after a June budget vote...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
Charles does a lovely cover of the Leon Russell evergreen, A Song for You, and follows it with an intense rendering of None of Us Are Free. The latter expands on the opening cut in a way that's both more pointed and more poignant, with an Eric Clapton guitar solo that complements Charles' anvil- hard vocal and leavens the message with saving lyricism...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...Pianist Leon Fleisher: one hand, three concertos...