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...always fun to watch him simmer, snort and eventually soften. Snub-nosed, wide-eyed and high-spirited, Heche has an equally conventional transition to make, from Xanex-popping, would-be sophisticate with minimal survival skills to a woman who can bop a bad guy with a fallen tree branch and help repair the airplane for a getaway. She is also encumbered with a tiresome fiance (David Schwimmer), who takes up a lot of preaccident screen time and whose only function is to give her pause when Quinn shows his true, irresistibly cuddlesome colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Been There, Seen That | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

Right now, Ken Starr's probably wringing his hands and wondering whether anyone else has noticed that these days, when it comes to Truth, Justice and the American Way, Justice -- as in the Juducial Branch -- seems to be doing most of the talking. Well, Ken, it was the Supreme Court who brought you Monica, and Judge Johnson who let you get all the way up the ladder with Bruce Lindsey and the Secret Service. But SCOTUS giveth, and SCOTUS taketh away. As one lucky criminal (not a President) says with heavy irony in The Star Chamber (1983), "God bless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potato Chamber | 6/5/1998 | See Source »

Harvard anti-Jiang activists, joining the strong opposition to the Chinese president's visit around the country, presented a united front of rebellion to the Asian president's visit. Representatives from 11 Boston and Harvard organizations--including Harvard Students for a Free Tibet, the Harvard branch of Amnesty International and the Free Burma Group--met to draw out plans in late October...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Activism Struggles for a Foothold Among Undergrads | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...spent the 1970s distinguishing herself as a consumer-affairs lawyer, and as her husband's political star rose in Congress, Dole used her legal experience to vault into the executive branch as President Ronald Reagan's Transportation Secretary...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: perpetually prepared | 6/3/1998 | See Source »

...after they become successful in public life, then forget or denigrate their brothers and sisters who still live in poverty and who are powerless and suffer from inadequate and ineffective public representation," Higginbotham wrote in a letter to each of the 840 members of the judicial council, a branch of the NBA composed of current and retired judges...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professor Opposes Invitation to Judge Thomas | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

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