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...touring orchestra backed by the CIA. All end in moral muddles that dramatically underscore the dilemma of ends and means. Higgins is no prude; he understands that evil can be a matter of degree, and he can live with the camel's nose in the tent. But in Outlaws he worries about the beast that decides to enter broadside...
Roberts seems to be instinctively returning to his roots in revival-tent Pentecostalism. He is re-emphasizing faith healing and is reaching for his old-time constituency as his income slides (from $88 million in 1980 to $55 million in 1986, according to the Tulsa Tribune) and his largely vacant City of Faith Medical Center continues to lose money ($10.7 million last year). Roberts has quietly tried to sell or lease the medical complex, and is negotiating with a subsidiary of National Medical Enterprises to manage...
...reporters well. His skills would have come in handy three weeks ago when the Queen's youngest son Edward organized a charity event in which he, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Fergie dressed in Elizabethan garb and raucously led teams in mock medieval jousts. Reporters were kept in a tent for six hours and forced to watch the proceedings on a video screen. At a press conference afterward, Edward was met with a decided lack of enthusiasm and stormed out, giving the papers their royals story...
Bradley was under pressure to offer an alternative to the homeless after he ordered police to clear them from the sidewalks. But critics promptly termed the tent settlement a concentration camp. At best, it provides only a temporary respite for its residents. In two months the lot will be cleared for construction of a rail yard, and no one has figured out what to do with the homeless then. Undoubtedly many will drift back to the streets...
...replica of a Scottish castle floodlighted and surrounded by artificial fog -- and that was just the dinner announcement. Then some 1,100 VIP guests -- including Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Kissinger, Barbara Walters, Jerry Hall and Tom Brokaw -- dined and danced in a circus-size tent and watched a fireworks show set to music by Gershwin and Beethoven. Wearing a Forbes tartan kilt and a big grin, Forbes admitted it was "absolutely the biggest party I've ever thrown. We originally thought we'd wait until the 75th, but I decided to have one at 70. That way we only have...