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After a lengthy debate, the SAC approved thegrant request for the event, which would have beenhosted by New York University Professor Jose Munozand featured performances with racial themes...
...bombs are paid for again. The Senate dropped the Kosovo emergency funding bill on the President's desk Friday after passing the measure by a 64-36 vote on Thursday evening -- and the President signed it later in the day. The bill, which started as a $6 billion request from Clinton, quickly swelled to $15 billion in the House after Republicans indulged in $6 billion worth of one-upsmanship (not soft on defense, they!), some long-delayed hurricane-relief funds for Central America, and a good helping of plain old pork. But add-ons like subsidies for Alaska reindeer farmers...
Pryor hopes to be able to do more o rally support for the refugees back in the U.S. He has asked Wal-Mart to donate supplies to the refugees, including baby bottles, blankets, clothes and shoes. He said he intends to request aid from a number of other companies...
...after giving her character's dialogue a once-over. Says Ross: "So I asked the director [Robert Allan Ackerman], 'Will you allow me to improvise?' And he was very open to that." (Ross and Brandy both say they ad-libbed much of their dialogue.) Ross also made one more request: she wanted the script's setting moved from Los Angeles to New York City so she could be closer to her children (she has two sons, Ross, 12, and Evan, 10, as well as three adult daughters, Rhonda, Tracee and Chudney...
That's one reason Jackson has made a career of giving dictators such as Slobodan Milosevic a chance to show their gentler side by releasing captives at his request. It's not mere ego tripping, as some cynics charge, or an expression of Jackson's deeply held belief in nonviolence. It's almost Faustian. I think he needs the rush that only bargaining with evil can provide...