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...twist to the scandal, plaintiffs' lawyers involved in the deposition of Duncan's former assistant Shannon Adlong told TIME last week that the shredding of documents actually began on Oct. 13 - 10 days before Andersen admitted it started and a day after Temple's memo. Adlong, who was responsible for ordering extra bags for the shredded papers, said so much evidence had to be destroyed that 32 "trunks," each the size of a football locker, were hauled off by a shredding company...
...subversive instinct was evident from his bare feet upwards. McFerrin utilized his improvisational ability to twist classical music; Pachelbel’s “Canon” became a country and western hoe-down and received tumultuous audience response. He interjected his performances with parodied accents and hammy antics, demonstrating that pretension and talent need not be inextricably linked. While stage hands made one of many set changes, he, comically stern and stoic, played polytonal music to accompany, and pulled aside Jonathan Salz of the Sanders Theater production staff and staged an impromptu interview as he supervised the transition...
There's a new alliance in Hollywood: the military-entertainment complex. The networks need a new twist on reality TV, the genre that has cooled since 9/11--or perhaps, in part, because of it. The Pentagon has a p.r. issue: How do you maintain public interest in a war that could stay on simmer--an air strike here, a wiretap there--for years...
...translations of the Gallic staples Jean-Christophe, Madame Bovary, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Count of Monte Cristo, also stolen from the same Western treasure trove - the worldly education of the beautiful seamstress and real re-education of both young men are completed with an ironic, movie-twist happy ending...
LIBYA No Medical Plot A bizarre case against seven foreign medical workers took another twist when a Libyan judge found no evidence to support the charges against them - after three years in jail. The People's Court in Tripoli charged a Palestinian doctor and six Bulgarian medical workers last July with a plot to undermine state security by infecting children with the aids virus. Their lawyers argued that poor hospital hygiene caused the infections. The case has been referred to an ordinary criminal court...