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...dream. Leading Albert's defense was Roy Black, who had made his reputation defending William Kennedy Smith against a rape charge in 1991. The lead prosecutor was Richard E. Trodden, a former high school teacher who has been known to hang pictures of W.B. Yeats, Winston Churchill and Sir Thomas More in his office. And presiding over the case was Judge Benjamin N.A. Kendrick, a triathlete, marathoner, in-line skater and crackerjack darts player...
...five long-time IRS agents testified from behind tall gray screens, their voices disguised by electronic warblers. All the cameras could see was the crescent of senators ? among them the thoughtful, blinking Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who let slip the only clue to a witness's identity when he said "sir." The tales of malfeasance flowed like wine: One witness had "been instructed by IRS management not to conduct audits of particular taxpayers who happen to be personal friends of someone in IRS management." Why so shy about coming forward? One agent claimed to be "painfully aware of the ability...
...simplicity of a television: on, off, a channel tuner. AOL says, for instance, that 60% of the calls that spill into its help center come from people who are having basic computer problems--not difficulties with AOL. And many of the problems float around the "Is it plugged in, sir?" level of difficulty. Of AOL's 7,500 employees, more than half spend their days on the phone helping customers. And they get an earful: AOL customers are a cantankerous lot, and many are still dramatically unhappy with the service. "The customers keep us from kidding ourselves," says Pittman...
...future 8th Earl Spencer, two years divorced, found himself casting about for a new nanny to tend to the day-to-day needs of his youngest children, Diana, 9, and Charles, 6. He had sent his two older daughters Jane (today the wife of the Queen's private secretary, Sir Robert Fellowes) and Sarah away to boarding school, but he needed someone to watch over the younger children, who were living with him at Park House, a 10-bedroom manse on the grounds of the Queen's Sandringham estate. His daughter Diana was sufficiently lively and social...
...DIED. SIR RUDOLPH BING, 95, witty, authoritarian impresario who called the tunes at the Metropolitan Opera for 22 years; after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease; in New York City. Bing broke new ground as general manager of the Met--moving the company to Lincoln Center, introducing its first black performers, and building it into a first-class opera house. His ear for singers was equally discriminating--though he never quite lived down firing Maria Callas...