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Altman's worsening predicament sullied a week that had started out looking like a rare winner for the White House. Whitewater seemed poised to fade from the spotlight: House Banking Committee chairman Henry B. Gonzales proved he could stage farce on a grand scale by holding two days' worth of hearings that were designed not to inform but conceal. Gonzales opened the session with the strong suggestion that they were a waste of time and the confident assurance that "it is doubtful that any ethical standards were violated." The chairman prevented Republicans from raising questions about most aspects...
...testament to the success of the conference that it could leave nonminorities wishing they too could attend the event, that it could actually go beyond bringing minorities out of the margins and actually out them in the spotlight...
...spymaster has yet to prove he can retool U.S. intelligence for the post-cold war world. Woolsey is coming under growing attack for being too reluctant to cut his share of America's $28 billion annual intelligence budget and too slow to bring diversity to the spy ranks. The spotlight on the agency increased last week after TIME reported that more than 100 of the CIA's female case officers have collectively accused the agency, under Woolsey and his predecessors, of denying them promotions and choice assignments...
Throughout the disc, only in the Romance of the Grand sonata does Sollscher ever take the spotlight. Shaham makes for a very responsive accompanist, and even in a very delicate environment, Sollscher manages to avoid sounding tentative or hesitant. It is a pity that Sollscher was not featured more prominently, but the disc first and foremost a showcase for Gil Shaham...
While such theatrics might seem acceptable from a road-touring rock band, they are usually enough to scuttle the career of most politicians. But Zhirinovsky is no ordinary politician. In the three years since this obscure Moscow lawyer careened into the national spotlight, his career has combined the shrewd manipulation of an instinctive demagogue with the abandon of a swinging Sybarite. Zhirinovsky has slugged fellow lawmakers in the halls of parliament, hobnobbed with ex-Nazi storm troopers in Austria and posed, au naturel, for photographers while cavorting in a steam bath in Serbia. He has been kicked...