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...Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, announced that it had hired Starr to be dean of its law and public-policy schools starting in August. That surprise cheered the White House and infuriated Republicans, many of whom had hoped Starr could slowly undo the Clintons' grip on power with a string of indictments in the Whitewater affair later this year. Starr insisted that the investigation would go on without him, but well-placed sources noted that without the cooperation of Hubbell, Hillary's former law partner in Little Rock, and of Whitewater partner Susan McDougal, Starr had been stymied. In other...
...last 40 years of his life he dwelled in a small rented room on Chicago's North Side, from which he would timorously sally forth to collect street trash. After his pauper's death, hundreds of empty Pepto-Bismol bottles and nearly a thousand balls of string were found in his room. He had no friends and talked to himself incessantly in various voices. He did, however, have a secret life of disconcerting size and visionary intensity. Its traces were found after his death by his landlord, a photographer named Nathan Lerner, who preserved them. Some of them--63 watercolors...
...right into the Valentine theme with the opera's classic comedic plot, replete with anticipated marriages, star-crossed crushes, and a character named Cherubino. Like the opera, the overture too is a classic. It is a sweeping, theatrical piece with sudden dynamic changes and deft technical work in the string section, all of which were handled perfectly by the orchestra. The effect produced by the period instruments on a piece normally performed by a much larger orchestra was interesting; the thin, pure sound of the violins juxtaposed with the raw yet perfectly controlled sound of the winds and brass showed...
...success can be attributed partly to a spillover from NBC's ratings dominance in prime time, as well as to the resurgence of its news division generally. After a long, embarrassing string of failed magazine shows, the network has created a successful, three-nights-a-week franchise in Dateline NBC, which provides a valuable promotional platform for the Nightly News. The weekday Today show and Sunday's Meet the Press are No. 1 in their respective leagues. NBC has also expanded more aggressively into cable, the Internet and overseas broadcasting than has any of its network rivals...
...Guest artists The Brentano String Quartet with violist Samuel Rhodes of the Juilliard String Quartet. Program to include Quartet in G Minor...