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...film in two acts, there is little continuity between the first half and the second half. Not only does Carol look different in the second act, she is different. The woman who pressed charges against John is not the same as the one who crept into his office sheepishly hoping to straighten out her grade. Apparently, women who press sexual harassment charges are chameleons constantly changing color. The second half of "Oleanna" is a non sequitur. It is impossible to comprehend how the first act resulted in the second...
...policeman in a refugee hijacking in early August, Castro threatened to open the ports and unleash the population. "Castro appeared on national television and said military police would no longer patrol the waterfront," explained Eugenia Ventacourt, 44, a former executive secretary from Havana. Like hundreds of others, she crept down to the coast to see whether police were still patrolling. Before dawn on Sunday she and 10 others slipped away from a beach east of Havana. They were spotted by a Cuban coastal patrol boat 28 miles from the island, far beyond the coastal limits, but after circling their crudely...
...exactly according to plan. Despite the chain-link fence surrounding the 840-acre site, despite the 550 state troopers, the metal detectors, the confiscation of drugs and alcohol and the roaming private security force with the Orwellian name "Peace Patrol," a bit of the anarchy of the original Woodstock crept into its successor 25 years later. Several hundred people crashed the gates. The transportation system broke down early on, stranding huge numbers of fans and making the roads impassable. The audience pitched tents all over the grounds, despite pleas from the stage to do so only in designated areas. Perhaps...
...struggle over North Korea's nuclear capability crept a step closer to confrontation last week, men paid to think about the possibility of a war sketched dramatically different scenarios. In the worst case -- a computerized war game done in 1991 by one Pentagon analyst and never officially accepted -- an unstoppable North Korean force sweeps across the 150-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone, pushes south through disorganized defenders and reaches the southeastern port of Pusan within four weeks, just in time to block the arrival of U.S. reinforcements. The Korean peninsula reunifies -- with the seat of power in the northern capital...
...clock crept toward 11:15 p.m. last Thursday, the 500 scientists and engineers packed into the control room and an adjacent auditorium at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory kept their eyes riveted on a bank of computer monitors. They waited anxiously as technicians injected less than 1 oz. of tritium gas into the doughnut-shaped hollow at the heart of a 50-ft.- tall reactor in the next room. Then they waited some more as the tritium mixed with deuterium gas already inside and the combination was heated with powerful radio beams...