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...actually a love letter to the real thing. "Some people have said to me that there's a lot of anger in the material," says Alessandrini. "If so, I didn't realize it. What I hope comes through is our appreciation of Broadway. I'd gladly switch places with any of those people we spoof...
Many of Gramm's constituents in the solidly Democratic but fiscally conservative Sixth District seem unfazed by his switch of allegiance. "People who like him still do," shrugged Neeley Lewis, Brazos County Democratic chairman, "and people who don't still...
...minutes...the library is closing in 10 minutes." Jack started panicking--he'd counted on his dead-end row of carrels being dark, but a graduate student was still engrossed in work four carrels away, and there was an overhead light that stayed obstinately on with no switch in sight. Time moved at a crawl, especially since he had incautiously put his head down directly on top of his watchband...
...closing time proper, the library noises had subsided to occasional clicks and footsteps as guards walked through the corridors snapping off stray lights. At 10:21, all the overhead lights went off at once--evidently, to Jack and Jill's relief, controlled by a central switch. No one had come within two bookcases of them...
Beneath an asthmatic fan, the pianist eases from a tired collection of pop tunes to Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory. It is a curious switch because there is hardly any glory in the seedy Kinshasa bar near the banks of the sluggish Zaïre River and little hope for the country that bears the river's name. Though its debts are small on an international scale-only $5.1 billion-Zaïre is a financial basket case, a country so broke, so mismanaged, so beset by the global recession and, ultimately, so corrupt that...