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- GRAPEVINE, Page 11Split Decisions
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
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- Canned Pineapple. One year after his capture was hailed as
- a major victory in the drug war, Manuel Noriega sat in a Miami
- jail while his lawyers haggled with the government over the size
- of their legal fees and the issue of whether the former
- Panamanian dictator can get a fair trial.
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- Overdue Bill. Tough-talking William Bennett spent nearly two
- years fighting narcotics from a Cabinet-level bully pulpit. But
- Bennett left his drug-war post so meekly and with such meager
- results that some wondered if the general had gone AWOL. Bennett
- then backed off from his acceptance of a job as head of the
- Republican National Committee, throwing the party into even
- greater disarray.
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- Hold the Phone. The trustees of Washington's American
- University offered the school's former President, Richard
- Berendzen, a $1 million settlement after he pleaded guilty to
- making obscene calls to a female day-care worker and resigned
- his post. The deal caused such an uproar that a month later it
- was rescinded. But Berendzen still gets some $380,000 in
- severance pay and works as a full professor in the physics
- department (he's an astronomer) at about $70,000 a year.
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- All's Fair in Love and Show Biz. Andrew Lloyd Webber brought
- Aspects of Love to Broadway in more ways than one. Critics found
- the hit musical's score overwrought and the plot unlikely. In
- real life, the composer highlighted one of love's least
- admirable aspects when he announced a separation from wife Sarah
- Brightman and helpfully included the name of his mistress in the
- press release.
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