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Clearly, caution was the watchword of the week. A suspiciously high number of plane crashes, train smashes and the odd tourist-bus explosion seemed to give everyone the collywobbles. There was William Cohen grounding every military training plane in sight (just in case), Congressional committees trying to keep our boys off the Mir (in case any more satellites decided to fly into it) ? and Ted Turner pumping Kofi Annan with a billion-dollar handshake (in case the U.N. should collapse for want of Time-Warner shares). Even the Pentagon got jittery when the Oslo accord tried to prise a pile...
...threat of Other People is real. And unavoidable, unless one adopts the J.D. Salinger method of hermetically-sealed containment. But most people probably prefer a bit of relational activity in their lives. So if one exists in this world, Other People will come: by plane, train, or automobile, via e-mail, snail mail, or personal courier, over the telephone line if that's what it takes. And as I return to the College for this, the fall of my junior year, the press of the real world and my responsibilities to others therein is felt ever more keenly...
...some cases the actors surpass their own script and achieve the seemingly impossible task of carrying 'Shlemiel' to a higher plane. Benjamin Evett who plays the mischievous Chaim Rascal as well as the Chelmish sage Dopey Pretzel, when not stealing Shlemiel's latkas is doing the same with the stage. Comfortable and at ease with the silliness with the lyrics, he sings with the glee of a Puck and the energy to match the Klezmer Band's clarinet. Also exceptional are the buffoon Gronam Ox and his wife Yenta Pesha (Marilyn Sokol). Shlemiel himself (Will LeBow) is shlemiely enough...
...market (TIME Daily) ... Disgraced former Chinese Communist chief Zhao Ziyang, purged after the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, asks the party to reverse its verdict that those protests were a "counter-revolutionary rebellion" (TIME Daily) ... Thirty-three people are missing following a mysterious crash involving a U.S. Air Force transport plane and a German military airliner off the coast of Africa (TIME Daily) ... TIME magazine also reports that America Online is forging alliances with Microsoft (TIME Daily) ... U.S. markets anxiously await corporate earnings reports (Money Daily) ... Top TV show Frasier wins again at the Emmys, bringing it within reach...
...charges allege that among items Espy accepted were football playoff tickets, plane trips and limousine rides from Tyson Foods; luggage and U.S. Open tennis tickets from Sun-Diamond Growers; and tickets to an N.B.A. championship game. In all, Smaltz values the freebies at $35,458. As the transgressions came to light, the indictment claims, Espy scrambled to conceal them or to make belated reimbursement. He may be most vulnerable to the charge that he had a clerk alter an itinerary for a January 1994 Dallas Cowboys football game to delete references to Tyson before giving the document to investigators. Smaltz...