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...quality of the Jewish revival merely by counting heads in the synagogue. American photojournalist Ed Serotta, who has spent the past 10 years chronicling the revival of Judaism in Central Europe and whose work appears on these pages, recalls an incident in northern Romania where he met a kosher butcher who traveled four days a week to deliver meat to just 30 families. ``I asked him, `How can such small numbers count?' He chuckled and looked at me as if I'd asked an enormously stupid question. `Numbers don't count...
Worried White House operatives are cranking out executive policy options that, they hope, would allow President Clinton to stay a nimble step ahead of Speaker-presumptive NEWT GINGRICH's government-trimming, voter-pleasing butcher's knife. Proposed initiatives -- none of which the President has yet agreed to -- include merging the Interior and Energy departments and abolishing Commerce altogether. While neither step looks likely, Commerce Secretary RON BROWN is already maneuvering to keep his bailiwick intact...
Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the so-called Butcher of Bangui who was deposed as Emperor of the Central African Republic in 1979, was released from prison last September. During his six years of incarceration he underwent a mystical conversion to Christianity and declared himself the 13th Apostle of Christ. He lives alone, under informal guard, in a small three-bedroom house in downtown Bangui...
...episode is packaged as a sitcom fully equipped with fake, plastic decor creating a surreal aura reinforced by track laughter. This seems acceptable enough. Yet Stone takes what could have been a clever idea and pretentiously exploits it beyond meaning. The modern-day knight arrives enrobed in his bloody butcher shop apron carrying 50 pounds of raw meat. His scantily-clad damsel in distress comes down the stairs, their eyes meet and he is determined to help her escape the wiles of her abusive parents. After Mallory's father, played by Rodney Danger field, propositions her with, "Hey bitch...
...others sued, claiming that the injunction infringed on free speech, was skewed against pro-life sentiment and was too overreaching. Mathew Staver, their lawyer, noting that 300 ft. is almost the length of a football field, maintained, "This injunction, instead of using a surgeon's scalpel, cuts with a butcher's knife." No one knew how the Justices would...