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...protect children who have no voice in the world.... whose fragile lives are being abused and lost due to uncertainties utterly out of their control." Around the parking lot, things were winding down. The group Hanson arrived. It's now four or five years since the three brothers first burst on the scene, and that has brought adolescence. Even so, there was something bizarre about seeing the guy who was the cute young singer in the group chatting up a girl in her late teens. It was as though a Rubicon had been crossed. The End of the Innocence...
...Suzuki has spent his entire adult life at his firm, working from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. daily. He joined the company out of high school, in 1974, drawn to the firm because it managed his father's portfolio. "This is more serious, much worse than when the bubble burst," Suzuki says, referring to 1990, when the bottom fell out of Japan's stock market. "We cannot see any future...
...Manet had much to be bitter about. Shortly before he died, a friend tried to console him with the thought that he would get his due in the end. "Oh, I know all about justice being done one day," Manet burst out. "It means one begins to live only after one is dead." He died of tertiary syphilis, which he may have inherited from his eminently respectable father, who wanted him to do something more respectable than painting. His death, hastened by gangrene of the leg, was horrific and preceded by a long, slow descent into agony...
...Thompson's performance so moving, that it seems a shame to carp. But the TV movie, like the play, treads a predictable path, especially in its portrayal of the insensitive doctors. And the most courageous and startling moment in the stage version--the middle-aged protagonist disrobes in a burst of light at the very end--is inexplicably gone...
...Greenspan has ridden the twisting, turning, 10-year economic boom to a level of public consciousness that is surely as historic as the boom-and-burst itself. The Fed chairman was the subject of two biographies in 2000, "Maestro" and "The Man Behind Money," and regularly fields questions about whether he's more powerful than the President (especially this president). After riding TIME's cover as one of "The Committee to Save the World" in the wake of the Asian crisis in 1998; Greenspan may well now be angling to score Man of the Year...