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...press conference. "The American people want answers to these questions and the President wants to be able to give them," media maestro Mike McCurry told the assembled hordes. With subpoenas being issued for his secretary Betty Currie and his confidant Vernon Jordan, not to mention Larry Lawrence's widow, Clinton desperately needs to get a grip on the public's perception ? before the "I" word passes too many lips...
...next 4 1/2 hours they tried to resolve the dispute while the prosecutors, along with everyone else in the courtroom, could only sit and wait. Some victims introduced themselves to one another. FBI chaplain Mark O'Sullivan, who had been counseling the mother, widow and children of Unabomber victim Gilbert Murray, said the family was "extremely disappointed" in the delay. "This has been an arduous process," he said. "They believed today this would finally be getting started...
Billy Lynch, a lovely, funny man (a hopeless, lifelong drunk), is dead in middle age. His funeral is just over, and his friends and family have gathered at a quiet bar in the Bronx to forgive his ghost and congratulate his widow. So Alice McDermott sets down at the outset of Charming Billy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 280 pages; $22), a rueful shrug of a novel whose strong, shrewd opening pages should be taught in college writing classes...
...rest of the novel is simply a working out of what has been said and left unsaid at this funeral supper (congratulations to the widow are unspoken, of course), it's not the worst way to tell a story. One plot contrivance, however, seems awkward: as a young man, we're told, Billy fell loony in love with Eva, a visitor from Ireland, and after she went home, sent her passage money to return and marry him. For years he believed (as his best friend had told him, inventing the tale to protect the sanity of a fragile romantic) that...
CORAZON AQUINO 1986 Inspiring People Power, a widow ousts a Filipino despot...