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...playing. Then he would have no problems with filibustering. What he lacks in skill, talent, imagination, technique and swing, he more than makes up for with desire and hustle." -- Jazz great (and Democrat) Wynton Marsalis, commenting on the President's new CD, Bill Clinton Jam Session: The Pres Blows...
Freelancing ex-Pres. draws North Korea to bargaining table...
...Things were changing so fast, a South African Broadcasting Corp. interviewer lost track of who was President, Nelson Mandela, who will be sworn in next week, or F.W. de Klerk, the incumbent. He turned from talking with De Klerk to sign off, saying, "Well, there's State . . . former State Pres . . . well, State President de Klerk, Mr. de Klerk . . . not former...
...break the deadlock between the rival branches of power. One would be to turn directly to the people, as Gorbachev did in March 1991 when he held a national referendum on a new Soviet Union. Radical democratic groups have long been prodding Yeltsin to put the parliament-or-Pres ident question to a similar vote. Another referendum topic that some economists believe to be absolutely crucial to the success of Yeltsin's reforms is whether land ought to be bought and sold: without private property laws, capitalism cannot flourish. The President says he is considering putting both questions...
...young man," Hemingway once wrote, "then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." In my case, the moveable feast was spread at the crossroads outside Paris' oldest church, the 6th century shrine of St. Germain-des-Pres. Baron Haussmann cut a boulevard through here during the Second Empire, and in came what memory still rates as the three best cafes in Paris, and thus the world. The first was the Flore (1865), celebrated as the headquarters of existentialism. "It was like home to us," Jean-Paul Sartre once...