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...problem locations and types of criminal behavior spotlighted in the Annual Crime Report will be dealt with in a direct and aggressive manner," said City Police Commissioner Perry L. Anderson Jr. in a letter to the citizens of Cambridge...
Lyndon Johnson used to say that a good politician can "make chicken salad out of chicken s." Judged by that recipe, Bill Clinton is a master -- at least rhetorically. Consider last Wednesday, when the President dealt with two substantively unrelated issues, one foreign, one domestic...
...this striking camera work and arresting music accentuates the central theme of an artist struggling with what life has dealt her. She finds herself incapable of escaping her own gift for composing, and in the end is able to rise above the tragedy and use her talent. Juliette Binoche is essential to all of this expression. She embodies the hardness of Julie's resentment with diamond-sharp precision. Her face shows the anguish, the anger and the vulnerability of the character perfectly. She shows how a modern woman copes with the liberty that in the past has been kept from...
President Clinton's health-care plan was dealt a blow when the influential Business Roundtable of 200 of the country's largest firms endorsed a rival plan sponsored by Tennessee Democratic Representative Jim Cooper -- this despite avid lobbying by the White House. The National Governors' Association, meanwhile, came out in favor of health-care reforms similar to those proposed by Cooper's bill, and the 215,000-member U.S. Chamber of Commerce said President Clinton's plan "cannot even be used as a starting point...
...therapy, or what he called 'urban surgery,' in order to make a complete break with the past." Fortunately, Paris survived Le Corbusier. But the idea might not be all that bad for other cities. Asks Fishman: Could it be that by tearing down so much the Northridge earthquake has dealt Los Angeles the shock therapy it needs? That somehow the blow will compel the city to develop in ways that take account of the seismic dangers lurking beneath...