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...doing for the summer?” he asked as our conservation regressed into generic IM small talk. I proudly replied “ABSOLUTELY NOTHING” and continued to explain that my summer would be spent at home. Here, absolutely nothing actually meant a lot: I would commit to working a local job, writing for the WomenINColor play and wholly familiarizing myself with music, the beach, the gym, my men of yesterday (Faulkner, Steinbeck) and my men of today (Damon, Myers...
...Lost Ark and the finest of the season's action epics--is its mix of future and retro. Lamar Burgess (Max von Sydow), who might be a more benign John Ashcroft, and his protege John Anderton (Tom Cruise) run a system that prevents murders by arresting people before they commit them. Yet the Precrime apparatus is so goofily anach-ronistic--three young mind readers floating in a tank and billiard balls rolling through plastic tubes--that your brilliant, mad old uncle could have concocted it in his basement. This two-edged look fits with Spielberg's idea of marrying science...
...Barton is charged with willfully setting timber, underbrush and grass on fire; willfully injuring property of the United States; maliciously destroying property owned by the United States; causing injury to a firefighter who broke his arm while battling the flames; and using a fire to commit a felony. She pled not guilty; a conviction could mean 65 years in prison and a $1 million fine...
...reason Sharon signed off on the fence was that Israeli security chiefs warned that the alternative was to commit whole army divisions to the West Bank on a permanent basis. But the new policy of taking and holding PA territory may now require just that, although it's unlikely to discourage violence against Israelis. Hamas and even the grassroots militants of Fatah oppose new negotiations with Israel and see the path of confrontation as bringing more rewards than negotiation. Many of those Palestinians advocating armed struggle will see the permanent return of Israeli forces to PA territory as sealing their...
...movement has grown bigger. On the Voice website is a set of presentations marked "VOTF Working Paper." They appear to outline a church in which elected lay people would wield as much authority as the clergy, but he will not confirm this as policy. Nor will he commit to favoring popular election to diocesan boards or more transparent church finances, although his group's majority clearly favors both...