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...performs no good service to the victim of a crime by "emulating his murderer." Well, perhaps not. But I do not believe that retribution--in the case of capital crimes, a sense of individual and communal vengeance--is a vice. I will feel no remorse when I hear the bell toll for John Royster...
...principals--that the money does produce big and nicely targeted concessions from the parties who take it in. According to Common Cause, regional and long-distance telephone companies won concessions in the telecommunications bill last year in tandem with their record soft-money giving. NYNEX, a huge regional Baby Bell, contributed $100,000 to The Republican Congressional Campaign Committee the same month House G.O.P. leaders relaxed a requirement in the bill that Baby Bells must have competition for local telephone business before being able to sell long-distance service. Later long-distance companies gave $160,000 to the Democrats after...
This Quasimodo (voiced and sung by Tom Hulce) is a young man with the most intense growing pains--Beauty's Beast, but without the majesty. Imprisoned in the Notre Dame bell tower by his master, the imperious Judge Frollo (Tony Jay), Quasi pines to be among the people he sees from above. His one furlough has him crowned King of Fools and leads to his lovestruck meeting with the Gypsy Esmeralda (the indomitably spunky Demi Moore). Frollo, to his surprise and shame, loves...
...married and divorced twice. Her first husband was Benny Kornegay, a shipyard worker; her second, the jazz bassist Ray Brown. In the past decade, her many illnesses seemed incompatible with the bell-like clarity of her voice, one recognized by octogenarians and Generation Xers alike. She was performing as late as 1992, but the physical debilitation was crushing, aggravated mostly by diabetes that eventually led to the amputation of her legs below the knees in 1993. But Fitzgerald made no mythology of her personal life. Shy onstage, ill at ease in interviews, she let her songs do all the talking...
...ALVINDEE BELL, 19; LOS ANGELES, CALIF.; student Leaving work one day in March, Bell heard screams. The strapping young man rescued a teenage girl from an attacker who was later charged with sexual battery. Bell, a developmentally disabled youth who participates in the Special Olympics, received a city council commendation for his bravery. Says city attorney Lynn Magnan-Donovan: "This has reaffirmed my faith in human beings. He responded to a situation where others wouldn...