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...says organizer Tania Bosak, a Croatian immigrant and live wire on the local arts scene who started the evenings five years ago. There's no cover charge-instead, band members walk around between sets holding out hats and caps for "gold-coin donations" (small-denomination silver change is frowned upon). But what's really special is the diversity of the audience. Expect to see suited office workers and bedraggled backpackers, elderly couples and trendy young things, all enjoying everything from toe-tapping swing to bebop. "Tasmanian people aren't afraid of the elements," says Bosak. Neither will you be, when...
...graduate who arrived in the U.S. in 1968 with just $100 and a few words of English. She went to work as a maid for Johnson and his second wife, and three years later married him a week after his divorce. During their twelve-year marriage the pair embarked upon a style of high living to which even he had been previously unaccustomed. Together they created a $30 million, 140-acre homestead in Princeton, N.J., called Jasna Polana after Leo Tolstoy's Russian estate, though what Tolstoy would have thought of its air-conditioned doghouse is hard to say. Even...
...February a panel of three federal judges rejected that argument but threw out the law anyway on a flipped-over version of the objection. Gramm-Rudman did not infringe upon the authority of Congress, they said, but upon that of the President. The Constitution forbids giving Executive powers to an official who, like the Comptroller, is removable by the legislature. In effect, the judges said, an officer who carries out Executive Branch functions must not be beholden to another branch...
Unlike Reagan, Gorbachev paused to speak with reporters upon his arrival, reiterating Moscow's professed goal of eliminating nuclear weapons by the end of the century. Then, with a wave to the crowd, he and his wife were whisked away by car to the Georg Ots, the Soviet ship on which they stayed in Reykjavik harbor...
...catalog the world around him by scents: "He had gathered tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of specific smells and kept them so clearly, so randomly, at his disposal, that he could not only recall them when he smelled them again, but could also actually smell them simply upon recollection. And what was more, he even knew how by sheer imagination to arrange new combinations of them, to the point where he created odors that did not exist in the real world." This talent has at least one major flaw: "The creative activity of Grenouille the wunderkind took place only...