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...even exactly sure where the excised scenes would have fit in, so drastic is the editing. It is hard to imagine that "Target" was nearly rated NC-17 when its final cut is worlds tamer than such gunfests as "Total Recall" or "Die Hard...
...Files a couple of weeks ago, and he wasn't happy. In one scene, a female police officer surprises a burglary suspect in a warehouse; he attacks her savagely, then she shoots him in self-defense. When Fox censors objected to the violence, Langley was forced to make drastic excisions. "It was absurd," he says. "The pressure was on us to de-emphasize the attack, so you wound up showing her shooting him without any motivation." Langley, like many others in Hollywood, knows the reason for this outbreak of squeamishness: the networks have suddenly got religion on the subject...
...available. For example, if there were five city-council members, each voter would have five votes. That measure, says Guinier, would allow black voters to cast all their ballots for a black candidate, consolidating their power. Dozens of communities, mainly in Alabama, have already used such schemes. A more drastic remedy would be a "minority veto," which would allow judges to give black legislators the power to veto a measure by the majority in situations where proposals by minority legislators have been consistently thwarted...
...College moves to to untangle the knots in its seemingly redundant bureaucracy, questions burn: Will Counter, Gravelle and Epps all remain in their current positions? How drastic will the changes...
...talks began in 1947, may be a sign of the Clinton administration's ambivalence toward free trade. The unwillingness of the United States to commit itself to the multilateral trade talks, its labyrinthine administrative procedures and its inefficient mechanisms for gaining consensus all contribute to the need for a drastic overhaul of the system. Regional alternatives to the multilateral negotiations such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Community are being presented as alternative trade policy choices. But these should be regarded as complements, not alternatives, to the GATT...