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While fans may be hard pressed to select their favorite between the two troupes, most critics have no problem. Having hailed Riverdance for rejuvenating the Irish jig, most reviewers have derided Lord, which has Flatley blasting onto the stage in puffs of smoke, as a sort of Siegfried and Roy with tap shoes. "There is only one word for it all," wrote Ismene Brown in London's Daily Telegraph: "embarrassing." But harsh comments do not deflate Flatley. "When there are 7,000 people in an audience cheerin', and there's one guy who doesn't like what I'm doin...
...paper and began reading from it. 'It is now clear,' he said, 'that a substantial portion of the U.S. Senate and the intelligence community is not yet ready to accept as director of Central Intelligence an outsider who believes as I believe.' As the 15 members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence visibly stiffened, Sorensen went on to announce that he was withdrawing his nomination...He told TIME: '...[A] lot of dirty little streams flowed together to make this flood. There was the extreme right, the Kennedy haters, the Carter haters. The smoke-screen reasons--outright lies and falsehoods...
...China. These parallels seem to fit fairly neatly into two molds. One, familiar from several earlier dynasties, is the role of the man who has the delicate task of consolidating the work of an ambitious, tough, erratic though canny, and self-aggrandizing reunifier of China. Mao Zedong, like a select number of earlier Emperors, played the unifier's role in drawing China together again in 1949 after a half-century of nightmarish domestic turbulence, civil war and foreign invasion. It fell to Deng Xiaoping, again like certain historical precursors, to take this mixed legacy and secure the positive aspects...
TIME has long had a special relationship with Deng--or, as we used to spell it, Teng. He was twice named Man of the Year--a distinction shared by a select group of world leaders that includes Churchill, Eisenhower and Gorbachev. When Deng decided to visit the U.S. in 1979, he gave TIME his first interview with a Western magazine...
...attract enough customers to wipe out local stations, the FCC says. One possible reason: the end of free radio. Like cable TV, digital radio comes at a price, currently projected at between $5 and $10 per month. Using a special radio equipped with a disc-shaped antenna, customers could select a package of channels dedicated to specific topics like weather, sports or opera, or receive up-to-the-minute stock quotes for their car radio. Despite the risk involved, four companies are ready to take the plunge. CD Radio of Washington, D.C., American Mobile Satellite Corp. of Reston, VA, Digital...