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Slams started in Chicago in the mid-1980s when Marc Smith, a former construction worker and a published poet, created them to revitalize poetry readings and reach new audiences. I first heard about them in 1991, when I reported on the growing phenomenon for TIME. Like many poets, I was suspicious of the concept. How could you judge poetry? Why would you want to? But when L.A.'s first team went to Portland, Ore., in 1996, I tagged along with some friends. While not everything I heard fit my definition of poetry, it was a Woodstock of words, images...
MOSCOW: Russia's politicians may reach an agreement on a prime minister, but they're unlikely to agree on an economic policy. Boris Yeltsin has convened a weekend horse-trading session in the hope of securing Viktor Chernomyrdin's election on Monday, after the Duma postponed Friday's vote. "The Communists still insist they'll reject Chernomyrdin, but the tide may be turning as backroom deals have swung some key constituencies," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier...
...memorandum in February 1996." Justice Department sources confirm that Gore's possible knowledge of the transactions is one of the issues before Reno now. The Attorney General, who faces a contempt-of-Congress citation for what the House G.O.P. sees as her recalcitrance in the matter, is expected to reach a decision by the end of this month...
...closure and justice overlap? Not necessarily. Should the President's approval ratings reach 100% next week, it would certainly represent closure to the Lewinsky case, but it wouldn't also mean justice had been done--particularly if Starr's report to Congress were to contain persuasive evidence of crimes. When Richard Nixon resigned over Watergate, that was closure too, it can be argued--but his pardon by Gerald Ford was viewed by many, even to this day, as an unsatisfactory moral ending...
Gantry is a sympathetic figure, Clinton less so, and less appealing. But one feels sympathy for Clinton too because the morning and evening stars are out of his reach. People sense the sincerity of his love, but also its promiscuity and selfishness. He just about loves everybody, and that leads from temptation to redemption and back again, forever. Sunday night he prayed with Jesse Jackson, from Psalm 51: "Have mercy on me, O God...and cleanse me from my sins." At the end of the novel, Gantry takes note of a new choir girl with pretty ankles, just before...