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DIED. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 89, former Democratic Senator from Arkansas and founder of the international exchange program now known as the Fulbright fellowships; in Washington. A Rhodes scholar, Fulbright was named president of the University of Arkansas at 34, but lost that job soon after his journalist mother wrote an editorial criticizing the state's Governor. From the beginning of his career in Washington, Fulbright focused on world affairs, submitting, as a freshman Representative in 1943, the resolution that ultimately led to the creation of the United Nations; he initiated the scholars' exchange program two years later when he reached...
Presidential elections are set for 1996, and Russia's VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY is already campaigning. During stops on a 20-day cruise along the Volga last August, he spoke to crowds, cannily tailoring his words for each region and ethnic group. But to Canadian free-lance journalist Jennifer Gould, 27, who interviewed him on the cruise, he was rambling and revealing. Their conversations appear in Playboy magazine's March edition. Topics ranged from Russia (``We need democracy. But some violence is required.'') to Clinton (``one of the founders of the decline of America'') and Arafat (``I don't like his clothes...
...other hand, the sensational aspects of Raging Heart would have given it a few days' tongue life if not for its collisional debut with Simpson's own offering. Written by journalist Sheila (Amy Fisher: My Story) Weller, the book draws on interviews with about 80 friends and relatives of the couple to present details you'll probably wish you hadn't learned; for example, Nicole was a lip-gloss woman from way back. The book says, `` `Please take that off her,' Denise Brown told the mortician, indicating the pasty dark red lipstick he had applied to Nicole's mouth...
...poor reviews early in her career but won critics over in Balanchine's 1980 Davidsbundlertanze. Last week Watts, a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, retired at 41, ending her final performance tearfully amid a blizzard of flowers. She is about to begin a career as a journalist and will cover the arts as a contributing editor for Vanity Fair...
...wild kid" and who would pop up in her life later. Although some of her sisters attained a measure of celebrity, Qubilah lived out of the public eye. She had a child, now a teenager, whom she named Malcolm. She lived several years in France, reportedly working as a journalist...