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...this Gridlock, Part 2? With Democrats controlling both houses of Congress, the Clinton presidency was supposed to bring an end to the legislative bind that canceled the presidency of George Bush. True to expectations, in his first year Clinton marked up a string of successes, including NAFTA, family-leave policy and the Brady Bill. But several of them, notably the one-vote majority for his deficit-reduction plan last year, were the kind of skin-of-his-teeth victories that White House staff members joke about as "Clinton landslides...
...Aggressively dressed in a long, full, Out of Africa skirt," Alexander writes at one point, she set out to trace her poet's imaginings. Mighty string-pulling brought a rare approval from the Chinese to visit Shangdu, in military territory 200 miles north of Beijing. This was the summer capitol -- pleasure dome is a fair description -- established by Kublai (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan, and a personage who, according to Marco Polo, "always rides on the back of four elephants, in a very handsome shelter of wood, covered inside with cloth of beaten gold and outside with lion skins...
...baseball player, Moe Berg belonged in the sock drawer of fame. He began his professional career in 1923 as the third baseman for the Brooklyn Robins and ended it 17 years later as the third-string catcher for the Boston Red Sox. He spent most of his playing days schmoozing and reading in dugouts and bullpens. His lifetime batting average was .243, he had only six home runs, and he was error-prone. If Berg ever stole a base, his latest biography, The Catcher Was a Spy (Pantheon; 453 pages; $24), does not mention...
...even some of Whittle's fans have begun to worry that their beau ideal -- who has said "few people really know me" -- may be closer to the fast- talking Barnum portrayed by critics. Last week Whittle Communications L.P. announced the latest in a string of setbacks. The company will halt development of the Medical News Network, an interactive news service with infomercials for doctors that was scheduled for a nationwide launch in October...
...Schumann brings intensely emotional playing, but also bad memories such as the beginning of the fourth movement, where Laredo and Stern both lose the string of their solo 16th-notes by the end of their runs. I wouldn't want the quartet to take a slower tempo, but I got the impression that they were flying blind--they didn't know for sure whether they could really pull...