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...independent" movies that blanketed the multiplexes last year, seasoned cineasts in search of pioneering film work kept flocking to the small screen of the PC. That's because the American Film Institute, through its online cinema on the Internet www.afionline.org/cinema) is showcasing the classics of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd--mavericks of the early 20th century's groundbreaking medium, silent film. With the help of VDOnet streaming video software, users have been able to watch real-time versions of such 20-min. shorts as Chaplin's The Rink and Keaton's The Boat, a different one airing...
Republicans in Congress, wary of the President's proposal as a budget buster, have raised questions about administering the Hope Scholarships. Will parents append college transcripts to their tax returns? Submit drug tests? Is a B from State U. on a par with a Harvard B? And what about grades K through 12? G.O.P. majority leader Dick Armey said last week, "I want to make sure that the President's program doesn't subsidize two years of remedial learning for what should have been learned in the first 12 years." But such remarks from the party that recently wanted...
...what the world outside thinks of Fujimori is beginning to concern him more. For three weeks he has bristled at suggestions that his reputation as terrorist buster and friend of the poor was at stake inside the Japanese residence as much as the lives of the hostages. In an interview with Time last week, his first face-to-face session with the press since the crisis began, Fujimori adamantly rejected political dialogue with Tupac Amaru, insisting that the group was "in extinction." And he seemed nettled by one criticism growing louder as a result of the crisis: that...
...this point that TPA has proved so effective. If given within three hours of the stroke's onset, the clot buster can interrupt the brain's panicked reaction. Damage may be kept so limited that it is imperceptible. Ideally, doctors would like to inject the drug within 90 minutes of the initial attack, underscoring once again the need for stroke suspects to get to an emergency room quickly...
...BUSTER SOARIES, 44; SOMERSET, N.J.; youth worker In 1994 Soaries, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Somerset, intervened to secure the release of 12 middle-school boys jailed for leading a brawl. He then founded Brothers Working Together, which he says aims "to help young people realize that they have options beyond the street corner." The program, which offers guidance and tutoring to 60 at-risk students, was lauded by Governor Christine Whitman at the Republican Convention...