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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fugue in D Minor. A photo on the single from the album features the slim, pretty teen fiddling away while standing in the Mediterranean in a soaking-wet see-through white shift. "If as a result of this, people see the violin as a fresh, trendy, up-to-date instrument, that's fine with me," says Vanessa-Mae, whose avowed goal is to do for the electric violin what Jimi Hendrix did for the electric guitar. "If the music is good and well played, then it will touch anybody, anywhere." And if the music fails to touch audiences, there...
...happy week for the heads of the nation's tobacco companies. Former Brown & Williamson research chief Jeffrey Wigand, the industry's highest-level whistle-blower to date, began giving depositions to lawyers for the state of Mississippi, which is suing the industry to recoup the public-health costs it attributes to smoking. Though Brown & Williamson obtained a gag order on Wigand from the courts in Kentucky, where the firm is based, a Mississippi judge refused to honor the ruling...
...People who are teaching are very up-to-date in their particular field. They're up-to-date on the technology and knowledge," says Carol J. Sherman, co-CEO of Technical Advisory Service for Attorneys, which helps lawyers locate expert witnesses. "I think that would be a definite advantage...
...bigger question is whether any of them should even try. At this late date it would be hard to raise the millions of dollars necessary for a credible race. Ross Perot's nascent party would seem a convenient vehicle for an independent candidacy, but none of the participants wants to be seen as a Perot puppet. Still, the Lamm group would like to run its own candidate and, failing that, nudge those in the race toward their positions. "There is the danger of creating a spoiler and ending up with a worse result,'' frets Tsongas. The remarkable thing, perhaps...
...door by a crying, blood-splattered but unharmed Jordan. Inside, he found Evans' body beneath a blanket and Samantha in a rear bedroom. Late Friday night, police tracked down Williams and Caffey, who had Elijah with them. Since July, say prosecutors, Williams had been feigning pregnancy and a delivery date that coincided with Evans'. "[Williams' family] had a baby shower for her, and she never was pregnant," recalls Ward's friend. Williams told prosecutors she and Caffey longed for a lightskinned baby boy--presumably the sort of mixed-race infant that was about to be born to the white Evans...