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...This isn't a conference report," protested Oregon's Democratic Congressman Les AuCoin. "It's a surrender document." His House colleague, California Democrat Don Edwards, agreed. "The House was skunked," he complained. Their anger was directed at the outcome of a House-Senate conference committee to resolve differences between the two chambers on next year's defense spending. The Senate had prevailed so overwhelmingly, with the unexpected concurrence of House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, that House leaders decided to delay until after the recess a vote on the compromise military-spending package. Most galling of all, but perhaps...
Since beating out five senior rivals last January to become chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Wisconsin's Les Aspin has walked a tightrope on defense issues. A knowledgeable critic of Pentagon spending, he nevertheless angered many fellow Democrats by supporting the MX missile. Last week Aspin challenged his party, saying that the time has come to stop playing "the Doctor No of the defense debate." Democrats, he said, ought to start coming up with alternatives to weapons they do not like, instead of merely voicing criticism...
...career. Given that both artists specialized in distorted images, anthropomorphic monsters and screaming faces, the Rosenberg drawings are surprisingly mild. In fact, they are lyrical studies for Picasso's neoclassical works that were criticized at the time as a betrayal of the revolutionary spirit behind his Cubist masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 20 years before...
Lowe set the stage for an engaging, impassioned series of student performances, singing “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” from Les Miserables. His vocal stretches from frenzied cry to scarcely audible whisper succeeded in both Prince’s tenets of “gleaning as much information as you possibly can from the actual lyric” while still “mak[ing] a role your...