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...Dole and his wife discuss any names. Instead something worse happened: news of the Doles' grumbling spread through Republican circles, setting off a round of maneuvering and speculation about whether Dole, a man who has normally resisted taking advice, could find someone to impose order on his sometimes chaotic bid for the presidency. Explained a campaign official: "Dole will do what Dole does, retreat to the Senate and think about it for a while...
...strategy of Michael Crichton and his wife Anne-Marie Martin, who wrote the script, is obvious: turn the chaotic tragedy of natural disaster into a PG-13 thrill ride, a succession of wow special effects that the kid in all of us can get off on. Such story as the screenplay provides (an estranged couple of meteorologists, played by Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, bicker their way toward reconciliation while chasing storms in an effort to test a new measuring instrument) is also an emotional low-pressure zone...
Such speeches could resonate, but the chaotic process that produces them is evidence that the candidate is still not in control of his campaign. There is still no cogent internal process for drafting, editing and winning the candidate's approval of drafts. Last Friday's address, for instance, was subcontracted to a private company. Meanwhile, Dole's economic advisers remain deeply split over how far Dole should go on trade. Some, like Robert Lighthizer, want to take a tough line with Japan and China; others, with closer ties to the ceos who have helped fund the Dole campaign, want...
...idea of a conflict between the worlds of matter and spirit inspired Mani, a member of a Christian sect in 3rd century Mesopotamia. He saw the cosmos as divided between opposing forces: light and dark, good and evil, spirit and matter. Our age, he said, was chaotic because darkness had swallowed up portions of the light. But, he said, Jesus came into the world as part of a battle to distill light from the darkness. This dualistic philosophy was Manichaeism, and it would find adherents from North Africa to southern China...
...graded on their compliance with the law, low scores resulting in lowered federal aid and increased supervision. "Clinton is seizing the crime issue," says TIME's Elaine Rivera. "He's attempting to show how tough he is on crime and heading the Republicans off." But in the often chaotic world of public housing, Rivera notes, the law may be extremely difficult to enforce...