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...favor of the faithful-to-the-book version turned in by LAURA JONES, who has adapted several books for film, including Portrait of a Lady and A Thousand Acres. Columbia, scared off by the book's less romantic aspects--the main character is an overweight lummox who moves to bleakest Newfoundland--wanted a more conventional love story. Both Travolta's and Columbia's reps say they're committed to the film. They only need to find a director and a script before Travolta finishes The General's Daughter and moves on to another irresistible project...
...favor of the faithful-to-the-book version turned in by Laura Jones, who has adapted several books for film, including "Portrait of a Lady" and "A Thousand Acres." Columbia, scared off by the book's less romantic aspects -- the main character is an overweight lummox who moves to bleakest Newfoundland -- wanted a more conventional love story. Both Travolta's and Columbia's reps say they're committed to the film. They only need to find a director and a script before Travolta finishes "The General's Daughter" and moves on to another irresistible project...
Creative Cook. The recipient manages to save Savory Baked Tofu and create dinner amidst the bleakest circumstances...
...taking the bleakest view is not entirely warranted. More than 500 years ago, Grand Duke Ivan III, the founder of the Russian state, silenced the special bell that summoned the Novgorod veche, but its notes have sounded, however faintly, throughout Russian history. The same nation that bowed down to Joseph Stalin also produced fearless spokesmen for freedom like Andrei Sakharov. Today, for the first time, democracy is of concern to a large number of people, not just a small group of dissidents. Long used to viewing freedom as a gift to be bestowed from on high, ordinary citizens have begun...
Indeed, an edgy mood permeates the West Wing. Senior officials renowned for optimism on the bleakest of days are spiteful in private and pessimistic in public. Party leaders wonder whether Clinton can or should seek a second term -- or whether to turn to Al Gore instead. Agency executives and Democrats on - Capitol Hill complain that decision making has nearly halted while Clinton remains huddled with top aides. "We're in uncharted waters," said a White House official, "and nobody has their bearings...