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...firsts; the 1920s was a decade of bests, as Europe produced films and filmmakers that were the envy of American producers and art-house audiences. In Sweden, Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom made sweeping dramas of man in tune with or enslaved by nature. Denmark's Carl Dreyer shot his heroically austere The Passion of Joan of Arc in France. The Germans boasted Ernst Lubitsch's puckish historical sagas and Fritz Lang's grand parables. Lang's Siegfried had a fire-breathing dragon, a contraption 50 ft. long operated by eight men; his gigantic, prophetic Metropolis nearly bankrupted its backers...
TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas 1:05 Dreyer (0-1) at Cleveland Martinez (0-3) Chicago 1:15 McDowell (1-3) at Detroit Doherty (1-2) New York 4:05 Key (3-1) at Oakland Jimenez (0-0) Toronto 8:05 Stewart (2-1) at Minnesota Deshaies (1-2) Milwaukee 8:05 Bones (3-1) at Kansas City Gordon (1-1) Boston 10:35 Clemens (2-1) at California Leiter (2-1) Baltimore 10:35 Mussina (4-1) at Seattle Johnson (2-1) NATIONAL LEAGUE San Diego 1:35 Sanders (1-2) at Montreal Pe. Martinez...
...nearly all his major addresses, Clinton's aides met with the President before Christmas to discuss a couple of broad themes for the occasion, "renewal" and "continuity." Three weeks later, they delivered a first draft in a fax to Clinton in Europe. With a week to go, speechwriters David Dreyer and Bob Boorstin met with Clinton on Air Force One to rework weak spots. The new discipline seemed to be working. "This will be a shorter, more focused speech," an official boasted...
...Dreyer added the latest changes by 8:30, copying the speech onto three small diskettes and the hard drive of his laptop computer. Clinton made more changes during his limousine ride to Capitol Hill; Stephanopoulos typed those directly into the TelePrompTer. What no one realized was that a White House communications aide had already accidentally merged the new speech with an old file of the Feb. 17 speech to Congress. Then they simply scrolled to the top of the document and waited for Clinton to begin...
...Clinton told the news to Gore, who didn't believe it at first. "You're not reading it," said Clinton. "Read it." Gore did, and then said, "I believe that's the February speech." Gore summoned Stephanopoulos, who scrambled to fix the mistake, eventually downloading the correct version from Dreyer's laptop. But for seven minutes, Clinton vamped with just notes. "I just kind of thought," Clinton told an aide later, " 'Well, God, you're testing me tonight...