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That is precisely why jubilant anti-smoking forces applauded a remarkable string of confessions by the Liggett Group last week as the straw that could finally break Joe Camel's back. The admissions, made to end Liggett's role as a defendant in 22 state lawsuits against the five largest U.S. tobacco companies, offered an unprecedented peek at some dirty little secrets inside Liggett and, by implication, the rest of the $45 billion tobacco industry...
Bill Clinton didn't expect to convince Boris Yeltsin that expanding NATO eastward, toward Russia, is a great idea. The newly chipper Russian President arrived at last week's Helsinki summit trailing a string of sound-bite warnings that he would not budge. Clinton did hope, though, that a friendly reunion, with both Presidents dropping jovial one-liners about ailments and recuperation, could establish a mood for compromise. On the night before the meeting, Clinton, recovering from knee surgery, had trouble sleeping--he heard a loud banging above the ceiling of his room. The next day he joked with Yeltsin...
...solo female robber terrorized banks in Marin County, California, in late 1996; last month in Maryland, a 14-year-old girl under suspension from school was recorded by a bank camera claiming to have a weapon and ordering the tellers to "just do it." And in a string of heists in several states, a mother sat calmly with her three-month-old baby daughter listening to the police monitor while her husband robbed banks...
...seat Radio City Music Hall. Having made its debut in Dublin last June, it reached New York City via London, New Zealand and Australia. Riverdance now maintains two touring companies, and producers are putting together a third. The show will return to the U.S. in September after a string of sold-out performances last year. Riverdance the CD won a Grammy last month and remains the top-selling album on Billboard's world music chart. pbs broadcasts of both productions have garnered high ratings for the network during pledge-drive months. Taped versions of Riverdance and Flatley's new opus...
...dismal, a moral blot. Less than half the already stingy immigrant quotas were filled because of the timidity of Franklin Roosevelt and the pigheaded xenophobia of his Under Secretary of State Breckinridge Long. Those in the arts had no special exemptions, of course; but by a combination of stubbornness, string pulling, blind luck and the help of a tiny number of devotees and friends in the U.S., some did get through, settling for the most part in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Among them, from Paris, were Fernand Leger, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian, Jacques Lipchitz and the core group of Surrealists...