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...worked with is "the greatest"--and doesn't even wobble on the choppy patches (the divorces, the cocaine, the time he beat up Don Rickles). One especially wishes the book dug more deeply into Bennett's music--a surprising lack, since co-author Will Friedwald is one of the sharpest jazz writers around. Still, this is an engaging read. It's that voice, the lovely Tony Bennett-ness...
...soon to know whether, as the millennium approaches, Monday night was the moment the Spin Decade ended. Clinton's sharpest sword has always been his ability to persuade. And even as the speech approached, it was hard to know whether to root for or against the man from Hope, to wish that he might seize what the office affords him in grace and redemption: to apologize and, with just the right mix of candor and contrition, to make himself new again. Or wish that he wouldn...
Whether or not Yeltsin's economic package succeeds, the sharpest backlash may be political. Yeltsin will surely find it more difficult stitching together a coalition of politicians and financiers to back him in a run for a third term two years from now. In fact, if the emergency measures begin to work, the big winner may turn out to be Anatoli Chubais, the former First Deputy Prime Minister who has been handling Russia's international-debt negotiations. His boosters will cheer him as the man who pulled Russia back from the brink--while Yeltsin fiddled...
...Statistics released last week a study of birth figures for 1996, one particular set of facts was heralded as Christmas in July: the birthrate among unmarried black women--74.4 per 1,000 births--represented a 40-year low. Best of all, the turnaround is likely to keep going: the sharpest drop is among 15- to 17-year-olds, whose birthrate has declined 20% since...
Ultimately, Johnson declined the offer--and Gill, who faced "the sharpest of criticisms" from some Faculty members for extending an invitation to the commander-in-chief during the Vietnam War, concedes that the president's arrival "would have caused a riot...