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...acting studies at the University of Kansas. Then she read L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, which Alley believes changed her life by making her take responsibility for herself. "I thought, O.K., this is either the world's biggest scam or it's fabulous. I stopped working, quit my job, and I drove my car to California to be a Scientologist...
...Clinton team is keeping the champagne corked because the news is bad news for them too: a case that had been edging toward a settlement for months is now off the rails and careering toward a trial. The lawyers quit because Jones, with the encouragement of her influential "friend and adviser," a glamorous California conservative commentator named Susan Carpenter-McMillan, rejected an apparent offer of $700,000 and a vaguely worded statement from Clinton that Jones did nothing improper. While it's not clear at all that Jones can win, the President has even more to lose, in standing...
...drama teacher at Indiana University in the late 1960s and still a close friend. "Both as an actor and a person. He always makes the illogical choice. He loves doing exactly what you least expect him to do and making it work. Right from the very beginning, when he quit a good job on [the TV soap opera] Search for Tomorrow and didn't have a job for months, he has trusted his instincts. And for good reason...
...Jones reportedly rejected a fully-paid-up deal Davis and Cammarata made with the White House ? because the apology Clinton would make over their alleged 1991 encounter in a Little Rock Hotel was deemed too vague. The lawyers threw their hands up in frustration and made their motion to quit, citing "fundamental differences...
With or without power, however, Mir remains a troubled ship. Earlier in the week, Solovyev was guiding an unmanned cargo craft in for a remote-control docking when the station's computer suddenly quit, sending the entire hydra-headed Mir into a slow roll. This swung its solar panels out of alignment with the sun, causing power to flicker and fade, and with it the TV monitor Solovyev was using to steer the cargo ship. But the veteran cosmonaut stayed cool, flying the craft blind until it was safely docked. That, said James van Laak, one of NASA...