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...puns--just opened in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac from Washington. There was a lot of fanfare, as there always is when journalists gather to celebrate themselves. The Freedom Forum sank $50 million into the Newseum, and it shows. You can't turn around without bumping into some shiny chunk of high-tech hardware: touch-screen computers, Cinerama-style theaters and a video wall so large--126 ft. long, 10 1/2 ft. high--that it could theoretically accommodate 300 couch potatoes at the same time. Reporters love the Newseum, of course, but so do the schoolkids who come...
Unlike those bagatelles, Kabila's threat to Mobutu is very real. The rebels control a chunk of territory 1,000 miles long. By last Saturday, Kabila's forces had not only taken the airport at Kisangani, the government's last major stronghold in the east, but had also captured the city. Mobutu's troops have been powerless to stop them. His success has instilled Kabila with such confidence that he seems to regard victory as a foregone conclusion. "This regime is completely worn out," he said with a laugh during an interview with TIME. "Mobutu can go wherever he wants...
...room and board, books and supplies, health insurance and personal expenses, such as travel between school and home, and the actual total--as Penn recently informed students accepted for early admission--comes to $31,582. This is real money. In 1975 my summer job alone covered a significant chunk of my senior-year costs. The pig sperm was gravy. If my three daughters decide to go to Penn--or Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Swarthmore, Brown, Stanford, M.I.T., Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Chicago or Johns Hopkins--the entire bill for 12 years of school will exceed $350,000. And that's assuming tuition...
...course, what Hall really hopes for is another hit. ABC, which is paying an astounding $900,000 an episode for the series, a large chunk of which is going to its star, clearly hopes for one also. And despite the show's weaknesses, Arsenio may pull it off. His fans seem to number many. Over dinner at Los Angeles' stylish Mondrian hotel last month, he was barraged by passersby expressing their enthusiasm about his return. "We can't wait for you, man," said one. Arsenio returned a beaming thank you. It is hard to imagine that after The Arsenio Hall...
...fetus is a tiny chunk of protoplasm,' Bernstein said. "It is a biological growth in the body of a host organism. To be a human being requires organically formed individuation.... The fetus lacks biological individuality...