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...herself as a rootsy folk heroine. Trouble is, she's always preferred to keep her distance from real-life record-buying folk. In concerts, even the most ardent acclaim left her stonefaced and unmoved. Much of her time was spent holed up in her San Francisco mansion. Fans eventually repaid the favor: Chapman's last two albums sank with nary a trace. Well, the reality check has finally arrived. Chapman now reads fan mail aloud in concerts. The new style is helping: last week her latest album, New Beginning, vaulted into the hard-to-crack...
...world today bears a tremendous burden of guilt from which none can shy away. There is a debt which is owed to Jewish civilization the likes of which can never be repaid, for no consolation from the world can restore the smallest measure of dignity to a people whom they aimed to dehumanize...
...having grown up in a segregated town where his grandfather owned a grocery store on the edge of the black neighborhood. Dole's maiden speech in the Senate was about the disabled. He will support any bill remotely related to Armenia: it was an Armenian doctor, Hampar Kelikian, who repaid his debt to his adopted country by rebuilding broken vets like Dole. He has fought for farmers, for veterans, now for victims of prostate cancer. There were few Republicans in 1974 who would have teamed up with George McGovern on anything, much less a reinvention of the food-stamp program...
...used to pay down the outstanding principal of the Citizens Bank loan. Then, to replace the advance he'd made to finance the construction of the modular home, McDougal arranged for Hillary to borrow $30,000 from Madison Bank and take title to the property. The loan would be repaid, he assured her, using proceeds from the sale of the house. She agreed, and henceforth the modular home on Lot 13 became known as the Hillary house...
...keep paying the bills. What Rubin has done to date--mostly shifting civil service pension money to accounts that aren't constrained by the debt limit--should take the government through mid-February. Such short-term cosmetic changes have no impact on the retirement funds, since they'll be repaid with interest. As the next deadline nears, frustrated Republicans hope to raise the political stakes nonetheless, calling Rubin's "evasion" of the debt limit "unconstitutional...