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...party Old Guard at the head of the table. "The public detests the look and smell of the L.D.P.!" warned Jinen Nagase, a party man from western Japan. Defying the tradition that youth must respect age, junior members of Japan's long-ruling party turned last week's postmortem session about the historic loss at the polls into a brawl of nasty taunts and fraying tempers. It was time, they demanded, for the discredited elders to hand over power to the young...
...postmortem assessment of the Guinier episode, many wondered how the Administration could have failed to learn from the Baird and Wood experiences. In the search for someone to blame, some pointed fingers at White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who cleared Guinier as well as the two previous failed candidates. A senior aide said there might have been an assumption that the Clintons were familiar with Guinier's record because she had been a friend of theirs since they had attended Yale Law School together...
Ordinarily, the immediate postmortem period is the time when a composer's music and his reputation go underground with him. Not Messiaen's. Consider, for example, a new Deutsche Grammophon release of the sprawling Turangalila- Symphonie, in a stunning performance by conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Bastille Opera Orchestra. Written in 1948, this vast, hermetic work is a powerful introduction to Messiaen's intricate, private world of symbol and allusion, both sacred and profane...
...FACT that the pathologists who performed the autopsy on President Kennedy never discussed their findings, except with House investigators and the Warren Commission. Last week the doctors broke their silence, reasserting publicly that they believe J.F.K. was shot by a lone gunman from the rear. Their belated postmortem report will not end the debate, but those who believe otherwise now have to contend with the detailed description of a "beveled" hole punched in Kennedy's skull that could have been made only by a bullet coming from above and behind...
...COUP POSTMORTEM: How Yeltsin unhinged the hijacking...