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...Bush looked not so much like Clinton, who was re-elected, but like his father, who wasn't. George Sr. had an expression that went like this: If you're so damned smart, how come you aren't President of the United States? That cockiness surfaced like a genetic code in his son's handling of the drug questions. Even some aides who privately wished he would put the rumors to rest were convinced they'd be slapped down if they suggested it. "The lasting damage to Bush is not that now everyone thinks he did drugs," an adviser says...
...forbidden to make the gangster film Scarface. The producer's response, in a memo to director Howard Hawks: "Screw the Hays Office. Start the picture and make it as realistic, as exciting, as grisly as possible." Within four years the Hays system was kaput, and a new, tough Production Code was installed. Overnight, Hollywood movies went from jazzy to genteel...
...Code" era of 1930-34 is getting its due in two excellent books and a film retrospective. Mark A. Vierra's Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood (Abrams; 240 pages; $39.95) mixes gorgeous photos with tart memos and anecdotes from the period. Thomas Doherty's Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934 (Columbia University Press; 430 pages; $19.50) cogently examines the pictures and their political impact. Those in New York City can see the fabulous evidence firsthand. Film Forum, the town's invaluable rep house, is mounting a series of 44 key films, unspooling...
...code so hideously complex? It's not because the IRS is run by fiends. Every twist and turn is there because someone wanted to use taxes to influence other people's behavior. Tax simplification is a popular rallying cry, but compassionate conservatives seem intent on making the tax code even more ornate...
...flag," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The problem is that it only really works if enforcement is universal too, and Annan?s proposal still leaves it up to the home country of the troops to actually prosecute and punish violators. In practice, that dilutes the the code, because we?ve already seen that different countries don?t apply the same penalties or strictness in applying codes of conduct." Consistent standards could be upheld, of course, by the proposed International Criminal Court of Justice currently under discussion in the U.N., which would create a permanent, independent war crimes tribunal. That...