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...weeks after felony charges against her were thrown out on a technicality, a Travis County grand jury has filed similar charges against Kay Bailey Hutchison. The Texas Senator, a Republican, is accused of using state staff and equipment for political purposes while she was Texas State treasurer. Hutchison insists that the accusations are politically motivated...
...albums gets lost in the newly-born sequences. Change of the Century and The Shape of Jazz to Come, both great Coleman albums, are better served by listening to them straight through (just imagine what it would be like hearing Miles Davis's Kind of Blue with other tracks thrown in between...
...then start a whisper campaign that he sings off-key. Last Wednesday, White House health guru Ira Magaziner praised Cooper's plan repeatedly during a speech before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The next day, Clinton told TIME that his Administration's much-ballyhooed dispute with Cooper "has been thrown out of proportion. I think there can be a deal there...
After the prosecution rested late yesterdayafternoon, the charge against Perry of receivingstolen property was thrown out. When the defensepresents its case sometime in the near future,each man will be facing a lone charge of larceny...
Though the formerly totalitarian government is now simply authoritarian, the leaders make no pretense of easing the hard hand of the police state to permit any political diversity or plurality, let alone real democracy. Dissidents are still arrested and thrown into prison. Even so, the high-energy drive for economic diversity and the freedom that offers to talented people have helped open the society -- so long as individuals do not challenge the state. "There is more openness in China now," says a senior Western diplomat in Beijing, "than at any time in the past, and far more than under Gorbachev...