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Parental intervention can still save some of these barely visible blobs of protoplasm, and last week a few did get last-minute reprieves. But despite the best efforts of clinic officials, the majority of these "parents"--couples who had donated egg and sperm in an attempt at in-vitro fertilization (IVF)--cannot or will not be located. Without word from the parents within five years, British law requires that the embryos be destroyed. And so, after last-ditch appeals to the courts and Prime Minister John Major failed, the clinics began dumping the eggs and embryos like so much abandoned...
...already has spurred San Diego natives to enact emergency legislation, plan for mass arrests, fight over billboards and invent new ice cream flavors. Local law enforcement officials are anticipating significant squabbling over the question of abortion. San Diego police have a rapid-response plan to arrest any protesters who attempt to shut down abortion clinics during the convention. Local judges have drawn up an "emergency court session plan" to handle the judicial overload should the police arrest large numbers of anti-abortion protesters. Police are also getting ready for rowdy Democratic protesters. In an oddly bureaucratic approach to protest gatherings...
...difficult to resist comparison with the book, it's also a challenge not to remember another recent attempt at putting "Emma" on the big screen: "Clueless," resplendent with Beverly Hills bird-brains. Some logic might dictate that "Clueless" changes the locale and pace of the novel so radically--Emma would say "Whatever" only if followed by a four-line sentence sprinkled with semi-colons--that it couldn't possibly be a more loyal version. But where "Clueless" successfully looked to a new world ripe for the axing, McGrath's "Emma" creates an uncomfortable mix by updating an old world with...
...perverse ways betrayed him, by his fabulously wealthy maternal Uncle Bernie. As he does throughout the novel, Neruda interrupts his story with bracketed explanations of psychoanalytic hindsight. Recalling a family gathering at which he noticed the blossoming of his cousin Julie, he interjects, "[Strangely, perhaps hilariously, I must attempt to explain my interest in her breasts...
Bill Clinton wants to see better children's shows on TV--or else. Over the weekend his aides were wrangling with broadcasters over a "voluntary" agreement to run three hours of educational programming on each station each week. (FCC chairman Reed Hundt's attempt to mandate such a rule ended in a deadlock between Republican and Democratic commissioners.) Clinton hoped to announce an agreement Monday at a White House conference where such advertisers as Pizza Hut, Lego and Reebok would voice support for the new educational shows. But if broadcasters balked, Clinton had a hammer: he threatened to appoint...