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Wall Street abhors political upheaval. Watergate took a brutal toll on the market, and Sexgate appears to be having a similar effect. One word traders particularly don't like to hear is impeachment. "I don't think it helps that Washington is discussing impeaching the President," says TIME business correspondent Daniel Kadlec. "That creates a lot of uncertainty, and the market prefers to see stability...
...Internet but rather an outfit called Home Shopping Network, which peddled stuff on TV and took orders by phone. Its stock had gone from 18 to 133 in the time it takes to say "cubic zirconium," and I thought it could only go higher. Instead, it suffered the most brutal, protracted decline down to single digits that I have ever witnessed...
Griffey and McGwire are moving up to a brutal league. If they are too much jostled, pressed or in pain, they will surely fall short of glory. But if they're seen to care too much for themselves...well, Ty Cobb is in the Hall but not in our hearts. There are no selfish American heroes...
Decalogue is different; stuff happens. This series--with each 53- to 58-minute episode dramatizing one of the Ten Commandments through the lives of the residents of a Warsaw apartment house--revels in the convolutions of melodrama. There are two brutal killings, a few attempted suicides, even a car chase. A perfect child dies. Another child is told, Chinatown-style, that her sister is really her mother. At times Decalogue plays like a Polish Melrose Place...
Neither Kieslowski nor Piesiewicz was a practicing Catholic. They were interested in examining the relevance of old laws in a Catholic country in a postmoral age. Decalogue, Five, which was made into a longer piece called A Short Film About Killing, shows two brutal, useless murders. In the first a drifter, for no special reason, strangles a taxi driver; the scene lasts seven excruciating minutes. In the second the killer is hanged by the state; that execution takes only a moment, but it is no less ugly or vindictive. The state, like individuals, has few reasons, many excuses. Kieslowski absolves...