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...people who must get on with the daily business of living no matter how mystified they are by unanswered questions. Carl realizes that he has a farm to run and a daughter to raise. When Amanda, who has stayed on to become Ruth's surrogate mother, suffers a nervous breakdown and goes to a sanitarium for a year, he nearly loses control of his increasingly wild child. Only when Amanda returns does Ruth settle down and some semblance of normal family life begin...
...prepared for the Democrats' arrival: On Monday, Aug. 7, seated before more than three dozen party officials, production coordinators and crew members, Smith runs through the convention day by day. "We may have Whoopi doing the Pledge of Allegiance on Wednesday night," he says, and he explains the breakdown of TV coverage. The convention will build each day toward the hour of 7 p.m. (Los Angeles time); that's when the major networks turn on their cameras, so it's the convention's "prime time." The opening night's prime hour is reserved for Bill and Hillary Clinton, and there...
There is a major breakdown in communication between the right and left in this country. And most debate simply degenerates into childish name-calling. But the conservatives grow in power when they are dismissed as crazy. Evolution will be back when the new moderate members take office, but grumbling beneath the surface will continue and the conservatives still will be able to say that the only reason they lost was because their actions were skewed by the national media. They were misunderstood...
Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak scuffled jokingly 15 days ago so as to be the last one into Camp David for peace talks; on Tuesday they were jockeying to be the first to leave amid what appears to have been an acrimonious breakdown. Each man ordered up his motorcade as the parties parted company with only a vague promise to keep talking. And while Barak and Arafat take home the consolation prize of having shored up domestic political support by resisting pressure to compromise, President Clinton is left to contemplate a somewhat threadbare foreign policy trophy cabinet...
...every breakdown in negotiations, Arafat would speak of the possibility of a Palestinian "explosion." When politically convenient--as during the "days of rage" last May that left five dead--the explosion would occur, either allowed or encouraged by the Palestinian authorities...