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...final weeks has failed to tempt either Arafat or Barak to commit to their roles because its basic propositions contained the seeds of domestic political doom for both men. And that appears to be the reality President Clinton has failed to grasp in his attempt to pass the peacemaker baton to President-elect Bush. Right now, both sides can commit to an open-ended process that helps them manage their conflict - to a process, in other words, without an endpoint...
Life as Steven Soderbergh then knew it came to end when he was 12 years old. He had been quite a baseball player, one of the best you could find among the boys in Baton Rouge, La. But in 1975 his talent mysteriously disappeared. "I woke up one morning, and I didn't have it," he recalls. "And I knew that I wasn't gonna be able to get it back. Whatever the thing was, it was just gone...
...quick to hang up his hat. His knack for directing, he says, "had left the building, but I knew it was still within the city limits. I just needed to tear down everything and start over." The result was Schizopolis, a 1997 comedy that Soderbergh shot back home in Baton Rouge. It's become a kind of cult favorite on video, a thoroughly nonsensical piece of work written by, directed by and starring Soderbergh, who spends a long sequence in the movie contorting his normally deadpan face in front of a mirror. It also features two characters who speak gibberish...
...baton is passed to Bush
DIED. JIMMIE DAVIS, thought to be 101, the "Singing Governor" of Louisiana; in Baton Rouge. Davis, who penned, by his own estimation, more than 400 songs, including You Are My Sunshine, served as an ineffectual segregationist Governor from 1944 to '48 and 1960 to '64. "He served two terms as Governor of Louisiana and was never indicted," said former Governor Edwin W. Edwards (who was). "That's a genuine achievement...