Word: veteran
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...permit to be in a band, and over 50 it should be illegal," quips Robyn Hitchcock on Saturday, just before his show at the Paradise. At 46, Hitchcock is fast moving toward his own age cap, but with a career of over 20 years already on the books, the veteran British folk-rocker doesn't seem fazed. He recently released a new album, Jewels for Sophia, and is now touring with a full band for the first time since the early...
...thing I've noticed about Seles is that she basically excises the two-and-a- half-year layoff after the stabbing from her age. She doesn't consider herself a tour veteran and sees herself more in the category of 22-year old Lindsay Davenport, as a player who is getting closer and closer to her peak...
...finally, two announcements. Number one: In observation of Veteran's day and our mounting misery, FM will not publish next Thursday; we're saving our batteries for Harvard/Yale weekend, only a fortnight away. Announcement number two: FMs executive staff are retiring in about a month and there are a few openings. Interested candidates should begin comping the magazine immediately...
Still, officials acknowledge, the mishandling law is flawed. Says a veteran espionage-law specialist: "If you prosecuted people for leaving classified documents in a men's room or a cab or at home, you'd end up prosecuting every GS-7 clerk and secretary in the government." As a matter of policy, to avoid negative court decisions that could make it harder to try full-fledged espionage cases, the Justice Department has rarely invoked the statute...
...offer, claiming it could never get so much information together by Helms' November 1 deadline. "That was not realistic," says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson. "Everybody knew that." So what's the story behind the scenes in this ongoing drama? Perhaps it's that Helms, a 26-year Senate veteran, repeatedly clashed with Moseley-Braun during her term, most memorably over the use of the Confederate flag. Moseley-Braun, the first black woman to become a senator, later accused Helms of taunting her in an elevator by whistling "Dixie." The White House, meanwhile, appears to be relishing the whole matter...