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...mayor talks about Ice T's First Amendment right to speak and then attempts to condemn Harvard for allowing him to speak," said Ogletree, whose "Saturday School" program was one of the sponsors of the rapper's appearance. "It's an effort in my view to chill the freedom of a person to talk about some important issues...
MUCH OF MONDO 2000 STRAINS CREDIBILITY. Does physicist Nick Herbert really believe there might be a way to build TIME MACHINES? Did the CRYONICS experts at TransTime Laboratory really chill a family pet named Miles and then, after its near death experience, turn it back into what its owner describes as a "fully functional dog"? Are we expected to accept on faith that a SMART DRUG called centrophenoxine is an "intelligence booster" that provides "effective anti-aging therapy," or that another compound called hydergine increases mental abilities and prevents damage to brain cells? "All of this has some basis...
...BACKUP ALONG GEORGIA HIGHway 138 begins around 7, before the morning chill has lifted. At White Road state troopers guide the tour buses and cars into a cow pasture, toward the PILGRIM PARKING signs. The visitors leave their vehicles, most on foot, some in wheelchairs, and spread out on lawn chairs across the farm, a one-story house surrounded by 30 lightly wooded acres. Many proudly display photographs of the sun -- fuzzy oval images, blazing auras, starlike bursts -- snapped on previous visits. Some read the free literature in a small bookstore, purchase OUR HOLY MOTHER sweatshirts or avail themselves...
...rowdy dazzle of Dead Again. He also misuses some wonderful actors, including his wife, Emma Thompson; she must put her radiance on hold to play a prematurely old maid who wants Peter to "fill me with your babies." Though the plot is a rehash of The Big Chill, you may ultimately begin wishing Peter's Friends were instead a remake of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians. Which one of these egregious twits, you ask hopefully, will be the first to be killed...
...company president Newton D. Becker said his firm agreed to hire an interpreter before the Justice Department suit: "They're just doing this for publicity's sake." National Federation of Independent Business spokesman Jim Weidman said the action, which hints at costly future requirements for commerce, would "put a chill into the small- business community." Others were encouraged. American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney Ruth Harlow said, "It gets the ball rolling for the Clinton Administration...