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...weed-choked lots, populated by gangs, junkies, pimps, hookers, maniacs, cop killers and third-generation welfare families. That is not quite the Hunts Point I was raised in, although it was hardly elm trees and picket fences. We kept our doors and windows locked. I remember a steel rod running from the back of our front door to a brace on the floor so that no one could push in the door. Burglaries were common. Drug use was on the rise. Yet crime and violence in those days did not begin to suggest the social breakdown depicted in Fort Apache...
Senate Whitewater committee chairman Al D'Amato (R-N.Y.) this morning rebuffed a junior colleague's volatile demand that Hillary Rodham Clinton be called before panel. TIME Daily reported exclusively on Monday that Sens. Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina and Rod Grams of Minnesota intended to ask that Mrs. Clinton be called to testify on whether sheplayed any role in the removal of papers from the office of former White House aide Vincent Foster shortly after his 1993 suicide."Unless there is clear and convincing facts and reasons that necessitate the first lady's appearance, I certainly have...
TIME has learned that two junior Republican members of the Senate committee investigating Whitewater plan to call for Hillary Rodham Clinton to testify before the panel. When the hearings resume Tuesday, according to Senate and White House sources, Sens. Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina and Rod Grams of Minnesota are expected to demand publicly that Mrs. Clinton be called to testify on whether she played any role in the removal of papers from the office of former White House aide Vincent Foster shortly after his 1993 suicide. It is unclear how the move -- a potential political powder keg -- would immediately...
...ROD STEWART His sold-out Moscow concert is canceled due to Chechen crisis...
...course it is both, and more. In one sense, Time Warner's role as the pop-culture world's designated lightning rod seems perfectly appropriate. As the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate, the company is big enough to have multiple examples of virtually every product that might give people offense, from cheesy talk shows to loud heavy-metal bands. The fact that it is based in America (unlike many of its giant rivals, like Sony and Bertelsmann) makes it a compelling target. The company may also have presented an inviting bull's-eye for Senator Dole because...