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...movie's first hour plays like a 1930s version of the "The Wonder Years." We watch the story's hero Aaron Kurlander (Jesse Bradford) experience life's small joys and hardships: first kisses and school bullies, games of marbles and overbearing authority figures. Although these scenes practically beg for cliched voice-over narration and close-ups of Fred Savage-like doe eyes, they manage to exude charm...
That his family lives on the brink of bankruptcy in a run-down room of the seedy Empire Hotel doesn't really seem to disturb Aaron all that much as he simply goes about doing his own thing. He has managed to trick himself and those around him into believing that everything will be all right. As a result, a sense of calm and stability pervades the first part of the film. As long as Aaron rebounds quickly from his setbacks, nothing is truly troubling. When his adorable younger brother is sent away to relatives because he is too much...
Putting together the exhibit, now on view at the United Nations in New York City, was no simple task. "There was an extraordinary outpouring from photographers," observes Aaron Schindler of Photo Perspectives, who designed the show. He, along with Sandra Miocic and Mirna Safcak, two women of Croatian descent who first proposed the exhibit, culled the photos from more than 10,000 pictures. Their goal: to find graphically strong, informative and emotionally evocative images that would illustrate distinct agonies of the war -- ethnic cleansing, the siege of Sarajevo, the medical emergency, life in detention camps and refugee centers...
Last September, economist Henry Aaron was preparing to meet Bill Clinton to talk about health care when he got a call from a Clinton aide who said abruptly, "Don't come." A scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Aaron had been asked to advise the presidential candidate, then campaigning in Michigan, on ways to finance his expansive health-care goals. Aaron agreed to brief him, but declared in advance that he rejected the easy assumptions of Clinton's staff members that health insurance could be guaranteed to all merely by targeting "waste, fraud and abuse." Aaron stated that...
...Americans. Now that he's President, however, Clinton is finding it difficult to deliver the four-course free lunch that he promised. The health-care initiative he unveiled to the nation last Wednesday, though widely praised for boldness and compassion, is drawing fire on precisely the point identified by Aaron and others: the rosy assumptions that undergird its financing. Senator Pat Moynihan of New York, chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, spoke for many fellow Democrats last week when he dismissed those assumptions as "fantasy" and warned that "we mustn't pretend that this is going to be free...