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Phillips has a new novel underway titled The Shadow Life. The book is a love story about the relationships between the heroine Mona, her war veteran boyfriend, and her two close female friends. Phillips's characters are much closer to her own age this time: the story begins when the women graduate from high school and follows their lives for the next ten years. Phillips has set aside this novel in order to finish her dissertation and receive her degree. When she graduates she intends to return to finish The Shadow Life and return to California...
...game was the squad's final tune-up for the heart of their Ivy league schedule which gets underway on Friday night at Yale...
MILAN: The political future of former Italian premier Silvio Belusconi was at stake as his corruption trial began Wendesday in Milan. Berlusconi, the media magnate who lost the premiership after seven months amid conflict-of-interest charges, is attempting a comeback just as the trial gets underway. Premier Lamberto Dini resigned last week, and President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro is meeting with potential candidates to suceed him. Berlusconi meets with Scalfaro on Friday. TIME's Greg Burke reports from Rome: "This is a do-or-die situation for Belusconi, who wants the premiership back. We have no idea how strong...
...reached "in fifteen minutes," a feisty President Clinton faced reporters Thursday in his first full-length press conference since last August. It was a masterly performance by a president who, by any measure, is facing extraordinary personal, political and financial difficulties just as the presidential election season gets underway. As he has in past crises, Clinton rose to the beleagured occasion with an easy blend of humor and toughness, smoothly batting away questions about Travelgate, tax cuts and his mounting legal problems. Asked about a Money Magazine report that his more than $2 million in legal bills have driven...
Said Chomsky: "Any time there is an Israeli atrocity [against Palestinians] they can impose curfew to deter any Palestinian reaction." He also said that there are now huge roadway construction programs underway in the West Bank so that Israelis will continue to be able to drive around the region without encountering Palestinians...