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Harris' welcome return to Broadway -- where she has won a record five Tony Awards -- depicts Dinesen in her mid-70s, back in the house near Copenhagen where she was born. Its real subject is her 18 years as one man's wife and another's mistress on a farm near Nairobi, where the writer says she arrived a Dane and left a Masai. These events shaped the scenic, Oscar-winning Out of Africa, and playgoers who saw the movie may find this new version drably lacking in sense of place. Those who didn't, and who also haven't read...
...broadened tax base, "none of which was popular," he notes. After dating Winger several times (they met when she was on location in Nebraska for a movie), he moved her into the Governor's mansion and somehow his approval rating in staid Nebraska remained in the mid-70s...
...said he would wait for Congress to clear up the confusion he had helped engender. / Bush's vacillation confounded his allies and delighted his opponents. Newspapers across the country bannered headlines studded with words like WAFFLE, RETREAT, BLINK and ZIG-ZAG. Bush's approval rating, which stood in the mid-70s only a month ago, plummeted 10 to 15 points. It was, said a senior Administration official, "the worst week of his presidency." The outpouring of criticism reflected long-held doubts about Bush's approach to domestic affairs. G.O.P. strategists complained that the President's flip-flops had weakened...
Partly sunny and milk. High in the mid-70s. Outlook for Thursday, partly sunny. High...
...close friends, for example, the Galbraiths, recall that she was, during her Radcliffe days, a vigorous proponent of the policies of the military government of Pakistan.) Secondly, while in power as Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Bhutto himself engaged in massive electoral fraud and political repression in the mid-70s, the accounts of which are widely known. In claiming to uphold Harvard's motto "Veritas", the Latin for truth, Ms. Bhutto has an obligation not to distort history. Shah M. Ashquzzaman