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...months rather than 12 months from now is based entirely on the fact that they badly want to ensure his replacement is General Joe Ralston." Ralston, who became vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when his nomination for chairman was withdrawn after he confessed to an extramarital affair, would be forced by law to retire once his present command expires in February unless he gets a new posting within 60 days...
...ultimately, he coped with the media carnival--the rumored affair with Madonna, the PEOPLE cover proclaiming him "The Sexiest Man Alive"--by opening up a place of his own on the midway: George magazine, which from time to time he used to send up the national obsession with all things Kennedy. He put Drew Barrymore on the cover, for instance, in a parody of Marilyn Monroe in the sewed-on gown singing Happy Birthday, Mr. President. When an uproar ensued, Kennedy pretended he didn't understand what the fuss was about. Or maybe he really didn't understand...
...plays the violin, which, although it has a long history in jazz, is not considered by all fans to be a core jazz instrument. However, for Carter, her violin is her voice--soaring, sighing, demanding, convincing. Carter's previous album, Something for Grace, was a smooth-jazz, easy-listening affair. Her newest release, Rhythms of the Heart (Verve), swings harder, aims higher and cuts deeper...
Woven through Cook's narrative runs the private thread (titillating, somehow endearing) of Eleanor's long affair with Lorena Hickok, a stout and mannish journalist. In the past, historians have usually sidestepped the question ("...whether Hick and Eleanor went beyond kisses and hugs...there is absolutely no way we can answer with certainty," wrote Doris Kearns Goodwin in No Ordinary Time). Cook simply takes it for granted that the ardor of their correspondence and their lives together was sapphic. Next case...
...admit it, but Yasser Arafat probably misses Benjamin Netanyahu ? because Washington?s love affair with Ehud Barak may put the Palestinian leader in an uncomfortable position. "We don?t accept this," Arafat said Tuesday after Barak and President Clinton agreed on a 15-month peace timetable that appeared to tie the stalled implementation of the Wye River agreement to the conclusion of "final status" talks with the Palestinians. Although Barak hastened to reassure the Palestinian leader that Wye would be speedily implemented, the issue highlighted Arafat?s political weakness. "Arafat can?t challenge Barak because he can?t afford...