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Before last week, Washington insisted the ties with Beijing had actually steadied over recent months. "We try to maintain momentum, acknowledging that it will be a sweet and sour relationship," says Winston Lord, a former U.S. ambassador to Beijing and now Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, John Shattuck, describes China policy as "one of Clinton's underrated achievements...
...Never has so much been paid by so many to so few," said Britain's Daily Mirror after the government announced it would buy WINSTON CHURCHILL'S papers from his heirs for $20 million. The sum (paid for mostly by proceeds from the national lottery) appalled some historians and politicans, who claimed the 1.5 million documents-which include Churchill's letters to his mother, an American, and drafts of his famous speeches-are public property...
Meanwhile, rumors that Mary Jo Bane, whoco-authored a major study with Ellwood, is stillin the running for the deanship are categoricallyfalse, said Bane's husband visiting professorKenneth I. Winston...
...That's about six months old," Winston saidyesterday. "She's not considering it. It was sixmonths ago that she was on [some kind of] shortlist...
...girls gang up with a band of rebel 'roos,the Rippers, and fight for their right to have aproverbial pool party. The Rippers, are a cliqueof half-man, half-kangaroo mutants, played byactors with elaborate make-up, and exceedinglyclever costumes designed by Stan Winston. Theyeach have definite personalities. The one who isreminiscent of rapper Ice-T, is played withsurprising depth by the rapper Ice-T. The Rippersare quite revolting in appearance, with scummyteeth and skin like hairy pumpernickel bagels, yetsomehow they're so charming it isn't impossible tounderstand the impulse to shag one. They are halfhuman, after...