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...casting: Verve has just released an album that teams Nicholas Payton, a 23-year-old Wynton Marsalis prot?g?, with Doc Cheatham, a slightly older trumpet player, one who cut his teeth with the likes of Ma Rainey and Cab Calloway. Doc ?s 91. The tunes here, writes TIME?s Bruce Handy, are standards, many of them -- like Black and Blue -- part of Louis Armstrong?s repertoire; all are played in a straight-ahead New Orleans style. But one?s suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull, the musical equivalent of a five-part series in the New York...
...said Russia?s agreement with NATO may undergo a makeover once he passes the document to the Duma for approval. The Russian parliament, dominated by communists and nationalists, already planned to add a clause declaring the agreement void if former Soviet republics decide to join the alliance. TIME?s Bruce Nelan reports that the Duma games, along with Yeltsin's highly-publicized campaign to present the agreement to Russian voters as a binding treaty that gives Moscow a veto over NATO expansion, may mean NATO leaders will call the Russian President on the carpet at the signing ceremony in Paris...
Various proposals on how to do that have been put forward, several by Bruce Blair of the Brookings Institution, a leading expert on nuclear weapons. Missile nose cones, he suggests, could be replaced by large, blunt tips, or disabling pins could be inserted into rocket engines. Indeed, warheads could actually be removed from the missiles, under mutual inspection procedures. All of the steps could be reversed, but they would build in a safety valve of time, giving an opportunity to reflect...
...wants to direct his resources to his religious enterprises, including Regent University, the educational institution he founded in Virginia Beach, Va. The News Corp. deal will give him the wherewithal to do that. "From a programming standpoint, Robertson and Murdoch may be at opposite ends of the spectrum," says Bruce Leichtman, a media analyst with the Yankee Group. "But as a business proposition, there are many synergies. This deal makes a lot of sense strategically." Now all it has to do is pass muster with...
...Bruce Handy...