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...outraged Republicans and a defensive scanner community quickly pointed out, the Martins' story--now the subject of an FBI probe--has a few problems. Only a deliberately modified scanner is likely to have picked up the Gingrich call and held it long enough to produce such a lengthy recording. And only a couple painfully aware of their action's consequences would have passed the tape on to House ethics committee member Jim McDermott accompanied by a letter asking for immunity from prosecution...
Presumably Clinton, with 49% of the vote this time, is less subject to the Law of Rallentando. Still, experience argues against the idea of a President's even attempting a second term...
Yesterday's aggro and shock, today's museum relic. "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York," curated by Francis Naumann and Beth Venn and now running at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, is an interesting show of what is, ultimately, a spiky but fairly thin subject. Dadaism--its name made of baby-talk syllables, its intent to disorient bourgeois expectations of culture by any means possible--was a short-lived but fecund movement born and raised in Europe in the century's teens. It was more like a tiny religion than an art event, with a proselytizing...
...Creation of Dr. B. makes clear, Pollak's opinion of Bettelheim has not much improved. Still, the author does provide plausible rationales for his subject's often bizarre behavior. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Vienna, Bettelheim was a frail, nearsighted child who was acutely conscious of his physical ugliness. As an adult, he was plagued by fits of depression and haunted by the memory that his father had died of syphilis...
...first playoff appearance, Mattingly batted .417 with one homer, four doubles and six RBIs in the Yankees' opening-round loss to Seattle in 1995. "He spent his whole life hoping to get into the World Series and never got there," said Joe Torre, who knows a bit about the subject. "One of the sadnesses of winning it all last year was that Donnie wasn't with us." Don Mattingly's locker was left empty during the Yankees' successful 1996 quest. It should stay that way until they win another...