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...tons of old newspapers, in a downtown slum. Danny (Michael Richards of Seinfeld) is a wild-eyed, left-wing paranoid, certain that every knock on the door heralds the arrival of the FBI; Arthur (Maury Chaykin) is a soft-spoken collector of wedding-cake figures, snow domes and rubber balls that he teaches Steven to listen to, convinced the voices of the children who once bounced them still echo faintly inside...
...gator crawled out of a small lake in the city yesterday and, thinking perhaps of lunch, made a beeline for some healthy-looking parks department employees. A worker who knew his way around gators quickly subdued it (ah, New York), assisted by a park ranger with a very big rubber band, which she promptly clamped over the gator's snout. City officials said it must have been a pet, since it was rather pale.Mladic photograph by Sava RadovanovicClinton photograph by Diana Walker for TIMEWu photograph by BBCGingrich photograph by Cynthia Johnson for TIMEMice photograph by John Sholtis Previous TIME Daily...
...reopen its channels of communications with alienated homosexual voters, the Clinton Administration announced the appointment of a liaison adviser on gay and lesbian issues. But the outreach effort was somewhat soured when a delegation of gay elected officials was admitted to the White House by guards who were wearing rubber gloves, apparently because of an unwarranted fear of contracting aids...
...White House with scores of surgical gloves, President Clinton apologized to gay and lesbian elected officials "for the inappropriate and insensitive treatment several of the participants were subjected to at the entrance gate of the White House." At a White House meeting last week, some Secret Service agents wore rubber gloves when greeting the officials. Clinton personally assured the group that Secret Service Director Eljay Bowron "is taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again...
...Justice Department's decision to stay out of a Supreme Court case on gay rights. Instead, the White House must now apologize all over again. The officials at the meeting -- including state senators and representatives, city council members and judges -- say some of the Secret Service agents present wore rubber gloves, apparently trying to protect themselves from being infected by the HIV virus. "It's safe to say the chief of staff (Leon Panetta) and others were distressed by that and believe it to be an error of judgment," White House spokesman Mike McCurry said today. The Treasury Department, which...