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...surprise that Bennett has appeared at the side of Representative Dan Rostenkowski, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who has been implicated in the congressional post office stamps-for-cash scandal. "The chairman decided he'd better get a fighter," explains a Rostenkowski friend. "Bennett is a tough trial lawyer who's not going to make a deal." Rostenkowski -- a major force in reshaping President Clinton's budget -- could be indicted on charges far exceeding the 29-penny- ante stamp scam, including misuse of campaign funds. After days of stonewalling, the chairman called a press conference...
...past 30 or 40 years. New works are often presented as a bitter pill to be washed down with familiar symphonic staples. Conductors, meanwhile, too often treat the Central European classical repertoire as a kind of competition course, with each one eager to put his stamp on the Beethoven symphonies or the Stravinsky ballets and thus climb the career ladder. "When I was a student in New York, you could hear orchestras playing diverse repertoires," Leonard Slatkin, music director of the St. Louis Symphony, told the Symphony League convention. "There is now a common repertoire. The overuse of a repertoire...
...told to ask no more questions about the matter. And of course years later I realized that he had been our man, our informant, inside the ring that we had penetrated. Therefore I was actually simply part of his cover story. All they wanted me to do was rubber-stamp him so he could get on with his life again...
...Britain 153 members of Parliament so far have signed a motion introduced in January asking Thailand to take action to stamp out sex tourism. "The Thai government has come down hard on foreigners who try to smuggle drugs into the country," M.P. Nigel Evans told the House of Commons. "I only wish that they would come down equally hard on foreigners visiting Thailand to prey on the children of that country." Britons are apparently well represented among such % visitors. In 1991 83% of all British tourists to the Philippines, and 80% of all visitors to the Philippines, were...
...processors, printers, telephones and copiers. After losing a bundle, a humbled Xerox staged a full retreat back to paper and ink, and now calls itself "the Document Company." Another office-of-the-future hopeful, Wang Laboratories, recently placed a huge bet on expensive paper-scanning and imaging systems to stamp out paper. Customers balked, Wang abandoned the office-equipment business and filed for bankruptcy last year. IBM also tried and failed, as did oil giant Exxon, which ended up selling off its office- automation division in 1984 after investing more than $2 billion in it. Microsoft could be next, warns...