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...enthusiastically to all the performances, but the appreciation became even more pronounced when a proudly svelte Bette Midler took the stage - and the audience - by storm. In addition to singing a hypnotic "The Rose" she brought on Spector chanteuse Darlene Love to duet with her on "He's a Rebel" and deliver a powerhouse "River Deep Mountain High." If anyone had given Midler the new party line on safe humor, she had mislaid the instructions, and she interpolated her singing with her trademark Sophie Tucker-esque one-liners. a cascade of ribaldry uncontaminated by PC concerns. One sensed the audience...
...where Williams won her first major tennis title earlier this summer. There is an edge to Williams' vogue that seems to embrace her womanliness as much as it rejects its conventions and etiquette. Williams' most recognizable feature is her braided and beaded hair. And while her flashy, swinging braids rebel against the tennis decorum of ponytails or cropped hair, the style also admits to her vanity...
...January, the Kennedy School's Center for International Development hosted Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, who leads of one of the rebel factions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Widely derided in Congo as a puppet of foreign powers that have invaded the country to plunder its diamond wealth, Wamba dia Wamba's own subordinates have admitted that his soldiers have been involved in at least one very bloody massacre of civilians...
...boost back home. Hasina's visit was covered in the Bangladeshi press, which made sure to add her to the list of all the other prominent personalities who have in the past been invited to speak at the Institute of Politics (IOP). The website of Wamba dia Wamba's rebel group (designed by a Kenyan refugee working at gunpoint) prominently announced his Kennedy school talk, as well as other university engagements...
Clinton went south to meet with President Andres Pastrana and formally launch a controversial $1.3 billion military aid package to help the Colombian government battle an unholy alliance of drug lords and Marxist guerrillas. As a welcoming gesture, the rebels bombed three banks in Cali and blew up a section of coastal highway the day before Clinton arrived, while students protesting the US aid occupied a building in the capital, Bogota. Most of the violence in the country - where the murder rate is said to be higher than the auto theft rate - is far from the relatively tranquil resort town...