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Hyman announced in the question-and-answer period that he was concerned the Reform Committee would handicap itself by electing someone who would "politicize" the committee. He went on to suggest that unnamed groups were attempting to pack the chair election for sinister purposes.
Nor can they find much else. In Kinshasa's fetid slums, there is a new and sinister edge to the desperation. People who cannot afford soap wash their clothes with papaya leaves. Families that cannot pay for funerals bury their dead in rude holes. Single mothers who cannot find jobs...
Nothing sinister was at work. Soft money had hardly been minted in those days; lawmakers simply wanted to reconcile the wording in two different statutes. "They weren't trying to do anything sneaky," says Fred Wertheimer, former head of Common Cause. But even if the loophole was opened by accident...
Now the orders are changing. Under pressure from home and abroad, two high-level commissions named by the Swiss government are examining the issues of Holocaust-era bank accounts; Swiss gold purchases and commerce with the Nazis; and the country's less than hospitable treatment of Jewish and other refugees...
While Shuman sang with a rather pinched upper register and seemed to shout rather than sing--at times reminiscent of Eddie Vedder--he gave a thoughtful and well-acted performance. Corona had a lovely mid-range vibrato, along with some excellent breath control in tricky solos. However, Benaim, a splendid...