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...Vienna I Love (Philips), a collection of waltzes, marches and snippets from familiar operas, performed by Andre Rieu, a Dutch violinist who looks a bit like Mel Gibson. At No. 8 was Rieu's From Holland with Love. Poised just below the chart was his newest release, Strauss Gala. This impressive lineup has made Rieu, at least for the moment, one of the hottest acts in classical music--rivaling Luciano Pavarotti, Kathleen Battle, even David Helfgott, whose recording of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto returned to the top spot, ending the Dutchman's two-week stay in that position...
Nobody, that is, except thousands of waltz-happy PBS viewers. Rieu's concert videos, in which he and his 26-piece Johann Strauss Orchestra are seen playing for delirious throngs of European fans, have become a staple of public-TV pledge-drive programming. Last year The Vienna I Love came in right behind Riverdance in viewer popularity. The telecasts not only bring in money for local PBS affiliates, they also promote Rieu's CDs. When he visited the U.S. in August to work the phones at stations across the country, his on-camera appearances helped lift Vienna into Billboard...
...Olson's opponents-Wayne F. Dennison, Patrick S. Normoyle, Helen Elaine Strauss and Robert G. Vasquez-each built broad platforms of their own, promising to improve the school's computer services, financial aid, academic curriculum and sense of community among students...
...raised $500,000 making phone calls have provided further embarrassment for the White House but still no smoking gun, says TIME's Michael Weisskopf. "We still don't know the location of his calls," Weisskopf points out. "This doesn't really constitute evidence." The note, written by aide David Strauss in 1994, refers to 15 to 20 calls made by Clinton to key party donors, as well as calls made by Hillary Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, anonymous White House officials say. The White House responded to the note Thursday by repeating the President's previous assertions that...
...raised $500,000 making phone calls have provided further embarrassment for the White House but still no smoking gun, says TIME's Michael Weisskopf. "We still don't know the location of his calls," Weisskopf points out. "This doesn't really constitute evidence." The note, written by aide David Strauss in 1994, refers to 15 to 20 calls made by Clinton to key party donors, as well as calls made by Hillary Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, anonymous White House officials say. The White House responded to the note Thursday by repeating the President's previous assertions that...