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While Weir and Hart tour, former Dead bassist Phil Lesh is mixing a three-CD album of concerts taped in 1990. Lesh also says there are 12 new Dead songs, available in either rehearsal or incomplete studio versions, which may be released soon. A reunion of the remaining members is always a possibility. Says Lesh: "We will play together in some form, but nobody knows when." Except, perhaps, for Jerry. --C.J.F. Reported by Greg Fulton/Atlanta and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
Whatever its provenance, Elizabeth Dole's Christian commitment also yields political dividends. Charles Black, former chairman of Senator Phil Gramm's presidential campaign, affirms that "she has tremendous appeal to Christian conservatives and people in the evangelical movement because they know she's active in the movement." They may have doubts about Bob Dole, who sometimes seems to regard God as a junior Senator from an unimportant state, but they don't harbor any about his wife. Even within the Dole household, politics and religion have not mixed perfectly. When a new minister joined the Foundry Methodist Church...
...PHIL DONAHUE The dean of daytime talk finally gets to Di, but just to dance; he'd already folded his show...
...among the Senate leadership, which includes majority whip Don Nickles of Oklahoma, Cochran as chairman of the G.O.P. conference committee, Florida's Connie Mack as its secretary and Idaho's Larry Craig, Public Enemy No. 1 for gun-control supporters and environmentalists, as chairman of the G.O.P. policy committee. Phil Gramm of Texas happily predicts "a more aggressive Senate...
Winfrey, 42, had a troubled childhood, but her genius was to realize that those troubles--and similar ones experienced by ordinary people all over America--could make for compelling television. Phil Donahue invented the participatory approach to TV talk, but Winfrey brought a woman-to-woman empathy and a flair for self-revelation that he couldn't match. Ted Koppel may have set the media's political agenda, but Winfrey had a direct pipeline to the nation's psyche. She helped bring such topics as child abuse, homosexuality and marital dysfunction out of the closet and into the public forum...