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Sometimes a society makes a tectonic shift, some great half-conscious collective decision. That happened with smoking, which was once, remember, a glamorous ritual of romance and adulthood. (Watch Casablanca and count the cigarettes.) It may be happening now with hunting. In 1997, the various states issued 14.9 million hunting licenses. Ten years earlier, the number was 15.8 million--not a dramatic change, but a trend. The average American hunter is white, male and 42 years old. Young people who once would have gone hunting naturally and casually in nearby fields and forests (as Glenn Shepard does) instead play soccer...
...Starr report was released; on the campaign trail in Seattle late Thursday, she lashed out at Congress for "doing stuff that doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the long-term future of America." The subtext: Either Hillary's been spending too much time lately watching "Casablanca" reruns, or she really has come around to the view that the problems of three little people -- herself, Clinton and Lewinsky -- really don't add up to a hill of beans in this crazy (GOP-dominated) world. At the same time, spokewoman Marsha Berry revealed, the First Lady is finally returning...
...didn't anyone tell MADELEINE ALBRIGHT? Mexico is furious about a drug-sting operation, code name Casablanca, which has led to more than 100 arrests in an elaborate money-laundering scheme. Although stings are illegal in Mexico, U.S. undercover narcotics agents ran much of the operation there. But oddly, nobody told the State Department, even though it has been working hard to get diplomatic immunity for drug agents. As a result of Casablanca, Mexico is considering trying to extradite DEA agents for violating Mexican law. At the U.N. drug conference in New York City last week, Mexico's Foreign Secretary...
...Citizen Kane 2. Casablanca (1943) 3. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (1964) 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 5. Network (1976) 6. Schindler's List (1993) 7. Brazil (1985) 8. Amadeus (1984) 9. The Elephant Man (1981) 10. Fantasia...
...Arabia (1962). See David Lean's masterpiece on the big screen and you'll be walking out on pretenders like "Braveheart" for the rest of your life. 2. The Wild Bunch (1984). Dirt, grime, blood and Mexicans; a true mod western with all the soul of Melville. 3. Casablanca (1942). Claude Raines adds just enough salt to a movie that is perfect in every way. 4. Bridge On the River Kwai (1957). Too much Lean? Never. 5. The Third Man (1949). Orson Welles gets best entrance -- but you knew that. What puts this film over the top is the final...