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...wishes." Counsel Starr was already investigating Watkins' statements concerning the travel office in his inquiry into the suicide of former deputy White House counsel Vince Foster. Janet Reno wrote the court that "It would be appropriate to expand his jurisdiction to include Watkins' statement to GAO on that same subject," she said. Yesterday, Mrs. Clinton told congressional investigators in a written response that she doesn't remember discussing the travel office firings with Watkins and that she played no part in the dismissals. The travel office staff was fired soon after the Clinton's arrived and wa quickly replaced...
...background or technique as for their impact, specifically on homosexual audiences. Those interviewed relate their own experiences, a method much more effective than hearing the speculations of an impersonal narrator. They describe having to forage for gay subtexts and innuendoes in old movies. Even within the range of this subject, we are presented with a wide variety of opinion: Arthur Laurents expresses a deeply felt, almost tearful anger at the movies' stereotypically effeminate caricatures of gay men, while Harvey Fierstein professes his fondness for and identification with these stereotypes. Susie Bright recalls with strong emotion the lesbian scenes and images...
...precautionary measure. Also Wednesday, the Clinton administration approved Taiwan's request to buy Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and other weapons. Taiwan's request to buy submarines was turned down. Taiwan's president says he wants to improve relations with Beijing. President Lee Teng-hui also broached the subject of an eventual reunification if China becomes democratic. "We have with goodwill extended both hands to our compatriots on the Chinese mainland," Lee said. "We would like in the future to have China unified, in freedom (and) democracy." China is conducting the war games in an effort to intimidate Taiwan before...
...Times discusses have been under attack for as long as there have been democracies. Rather, we should be shocked that the NBA is so concerned with a patriotic observance in the first place. It's hard to believe that something so tangential to a basketball game would be the subject of NBA legislation...
...years went on, inspiring--authority. He was 62 when his wife and longtime partner Gracie Allen retired, but his career was barely past its midpoint. He went on to even greater success in nightclubs, television and movies. His longevity became part of his appeal and the subject of his comedy. "It's nice to be here," he would typically announce. "At my age, it's nice to be anywhere." Years in advance, he scheduled a 100th birthday appearance, first at the London Palladium, then at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. But after a bathtub fall in 1994, his condition deteriorated...