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...himself and his work but therefore more wise than he had been during the early years. As with Hoffmann, "Hour of the Wolf" is as much a metaphor for indeterminacy and clouded perception as for insanity. Both artists share the very (post)-modern attitude that insanity is more akin to conviction than indecision. Appropriately, Bergman prevents his viewers from drawing too many conclusions...
...door" accused of the brutal rapes and murders of two teenage girls in Canada, of all nine counts against him in just seven hours. The trial, with its sordid videotape evidence of Bernardo and his wife Karla Homolka sexually abusing the teenagers, often transfixed Canadians with twists and turns akin to those in the O.J. Simpson case. "At the high points of the trial, such as when Bernardo testified, people were lining up at four in the morning to get one of the one hundred courtroom seats," reports TIME's Gavin Scott in Toronto. "But when police, forensic experts...
Back in the days when Bill Bradley was playing forward for the Knicks in Madison Square Garden, it often seemed that his greatest gift was something akin to clairvoyance. He sensed not only where every other player on the court was at any moment but also where they would be next. Well before he felt the ball on his fingers, Bradley was already in position to score...
...specific guidance about which Internet material is appropriate and which is not. Earlier this month a consortium of information-highway companies that includes Microsoft, Progressive Networks and Netscape announced a plan that should help. By year's end the consortium is expected to come up with a rating system akin to the one used for movies. Anyone for a nice G-rated Web site...
...this high? Pulling back the curtain on the Pentagon's battle plan discloses a patchwork of arbitrary decisions and inflated threats. In 1993 the Administration concluded that the U.S. military needed enough forces to win two "major regional contingencies," each akin to the Persian Gulf War, at the same time. But there is growing sentiment in defense circles that the nation's two-war strategy is wrong, at least in light of expected funding levels. "The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high budget," says Pentagon cost analyst Franklin Spinney. A study by the Center...