Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grubbs was not yet done. "And if all that I have mentioned for you is not enough, we have something more for you. If you can bring some of your friends and neighbors along with you to vote for Steve Forbes, we will give you something really special: a gold Forbes pin for your lapel." I looked at some of my friends, and I'd swear they were close to laughing out loud. But that resolute politeness prevailed. (A local reporter said later, "I was waiting for the Forbes secret decoder...
Last June an inspector auditing the books of a licensed dealer in Pekin, Ill., noticed that the dealer had sold 65 cheap handguns to a single customer named Donald Fiessinger. The inspector passed the tip to a special agent, who then ran the serial number of each gun through ATF's database. He found that one of the guns sold to Fiessinger had been recovered by Illinois state police from a different possessor during a traffic stop in May 1998. In requesting the formal police report on the incident, the agent talked to a state investigator, who mentioned that...
...Xiao, a Beijing-born investment analyst now living in Hong Kong. "I was very worried. She is stubborn and wouldn't sign the letter of confession. She had to go to two police stations for questioning." Her mother is also a Communist Party member, which singled her out for special treatment. The authorities repeatedly asked her about Falun Gong's organizational structure. Finally, she recanted so she could go home. "The security forces can lock up their bodies but not their hearts," says Xiao...
...about gleaming high Cs; instead, the show is the star. Artistic director Paul Kellogg and music director Stewart Robertson hire young artists who know how to move as well as sing and directors and designers with a knack for knocking the rust off tired masterpieces. Add to this the special pleasure of watching opera in a theater small enough that you can see Rigoletto's eyebrow twitch from the back row of the balcony, and you get productions so bold and vivid that they make you remember why you fell in love with opera in the first place...
...recent New Yorker magazine cover depicted Hillary Clinton as a tourist in Central Park, stalked by Mayor Rudy Giuliani as a mugger holding a cosh. The esteemed magazine may have done better to put Ken Starr behind the tree, armed with his final report. The Whitewater Special Prosecutor announced Monday that he?s moving rapidly to wrap up his investigation of the Clintons, and plans to have his final report out before the first lady makes her Senate bid. At one time, Hillary?s spin doctors may have welcomed Starr?s swansong as an opportunity to revive the image...