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...brief glimpses of General Radek (Jurgen Prochnow) plunge us back into the Cold War: As he strides across the prison yard in highly decorated military uniform, he looks the epitome of a maniacal tyrant. But it's Oldman's performance as Korshunov that gives the film its tension and intensity, adding layers to his character's coolly calculating role with outbursts of frightening patriotic zeal for "Mother Russia." There is also a revealing moment when Korshunov gently kisses Alice on the forehead and strokes back her hair from her tear-stained face, suggesting that beneath the seemingly cold-blooded terrorist...
...Cook was proved right. On the morning of Sol 8, Sojourner awoke, received its instructions and, after one more brief glitch, backed off Yogi, approached again and began eagerly sniffing out the rock's chemistry. Back at J.P.L., the exuberant Pathfinder team was predicting that Sojourner might live for weeks--and even months. Indeed, the little rover just could...
Robert W. Chasteney Jr. '31, a retired managing editor of the Time Inc. publication House and Home, died June 7 after a brief illness...
...BRIEF HISTORY OF EAR TRAUMA...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Just days before the start of hearings, the Senate investigation into campaign fund-raising abuse has apparently disbanded amid a late-evening flurry of reconciliation between Congressional Republicans and Clinton Administration officials at a closed-door session in the White House. At 7:08 p.m. EDT, a brief statement was issued in the names of the President, the Vice President, and all of the members of Congress. "We've got better things to do," it read, listing three new initiatives to be institued on the Fourth of July: First, all soft-money and corporate contributions to campaigns will...