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STRAVINSKY: PETRUSHKA; SYMPHONY IN THREE MOVEMENTS (EMI). Britain's Simon Rattle and his City of Birmingham Orchestra shake and roll in Stravinsky's great ballet score, then offer a poised, precise symphony...
...revealing warrant in St. Louis provided a glimpse of the type of cases the investigators are developing. The target was Paisley, a veteran Boeing Co. official hired by Lehman in 1981 as his top procurement aide. Paisley was a tough administrator who laudably joined his boss in trying to shake up the Navy's cozy relationship with contractors. He quit in April 1987, just before a new law went into effect barring Defense procurement officials from having business relationships with the department for two years after their departure. Paisley set up his consulting office in Washington's Watergate complex...
What was difficult for Cipollone's lawyers to prove was that she was helplessly addicted. They contended that her failure to quit despite her encroaching cancer was dramatic evidence of her inability to shake the habit. The defense argued that she could have given it up sooner had she really tried, as millions of other smokers have managed to do. The jury, apparently not fully persuaded of her determination to quit, decided the responsibility for her illness was 20% the cigarette maker's and 80% her own. Since New Jersey law says that product-liability awards can be given only...
Mikhail Gorbachev has never had to run for office, at least not in the conventional sense. But he too is a natural campaigner, as anyone who saw him pick up a child in Red Square and tell him to "shake hands with Grandfather Reagan" would testify. He was running a kind of countercampaign, seeking to present himself as a radical reformer who is revitalizing the Soviet Union and toning down conflict between the superpowers -- but also as a confident leader who would not get pushed around by any Reagan sermonizing...
STRAVINSKY: PETRUSHKA; Symphony in Three Movements (EMI). Britain's Simon Rattle and his City of Birmingham Orchestra shake and roll their way through Stravinsky's great ballet score, then toss in a dazzlingly precise symphony...