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Accordingly, on the day last week that the Justice Department received a request under the Freedom of Information Act to make public files on Whitewater Development Corp. -- an Arkansas land venture in which Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners -- the White House announced that those files were under subpoena. David Kendall, the Clintons' personal lawyer, had asked for that subpoena almost two weeks earlier, on Dec. 23 -- the day Clinton announced he would turn over all the files to Justice "voluntarily." As it happened, Justice lawyers were already drafting a subpoena; Kendall persuaded them to broaden it and demand...
There was nothing unique about the Muslim sniper's bullet that seriously wounded a Serb or the U.N. soldiers' response, a radioed request to their base in Visoko for medical evacuation of the injured...
...country. He complied -- but not before promising to someday "return as President," presumably of Russia. His intended holiday finale was to have been an 18-day stay in Berlin. But the Zhirinovsky grand tour ground to a premature halt when German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel turned down his request for a visa, informing him that he was no longer welcome...
...orchestra remains a proud exception to the age of clock-watching union stewards, pettifogging management and perils-of-Pauline finances. Players routinely take their parts home to practice, and they sometimes request extra rehearsal time in particularly difficult or unfamiliar works. Morale is buoyed by the support of the city, which treats the musicians as local celebrities; the death last November of longtime concertmaster Daniel Majeske occasioned editorial eulogies the likes of which would be rare elsewhere. Under executive director Thomas W. Morris, the orchestra sits atop an impressive $73 million endowment, operates in the black and is retiring...
TIME Online will provide more such live computer chat sessions with newsmakers in 1994. And, in response to the most common request we receive, Mandel expects some of the photographs that appear each week in the magazine to become available this spring...