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Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell is that rare breed of politician who is both partisan and fair-minded. Last week he stunned colleagues on both sides of the aisle by announcing that, after 14 years of service, he will not seek another term. Steering clear of the rage for nasty partings Mitchell instead offered his colleagues warm words of praise: "I'll leave the Senate with good feelings. It's a great institution...
Mike Newell's film finds its premise in one of modern life's minor truths: if you are a sociable specimen of the yuppie breed, you spend many of your Saturdays and much of your spare income suiting yourself up for friends' % weddings. Charles (Hugh Grant), a 32-year-old Londoner, has made a second career out of being a supporting player in these archaic rituals. For him it's like attending a rugby match without having to get muddy. Until, that is, he meets Carrie (Andie MacDowell), a pretty American. The movie being a nostalgia piece -- remember...
...three-letter cloak-and-dagger agencies -- the NSA, the CIA and the FBI -- and key policymakers in the Clinton Administration (who are taking a surprisingly hard line on the encryption issue). Opposing them is an equally unlikely coalition of computer firms, civil libertarians, conservative columnists and a strange breed of cryptoanarchists who call themselves the cypherpunks...
...this lack of significance that gave these young women pause when considering whether or not to become a debutante, although their reservations were often overruled by the awareness of the familial significance the event held. Still, the question remains: are the recent debutantes the last of a dying breed, just so many Jurassic dinosaurs in white dresses...
...toss around terms like "multiculturalism," but we no longer know what they mean. Indeed, our definitions have become distorted, twisted around. Once we spoke of assimilation and a "melting pot;" now, a new breed of scholarship emphasizes a curious form of academic segregation. Where once we studied and learned American history, now we study Afro-American, Asian-American and other ethnically-defined histories. And we do it in the name of multiculturalism...