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...these meetings prove that intimacy still matters; that a chance collision of two individuals can make a difference in how millions of the rest of us are enfranchised, enriched, entertained. John and Paul made music. Billie Jean and Bobby made sport. Fred and Ginger made love on their feet. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made conquest seem an act of comradeship. Read on, and recall...
Natalie R. Toms is in the second year of a Politics, Philosophy, and Economics degree at St. Edmund College, Oxford. She is the editor of The Oxford Student...
...each other anew. "I ruined your third act!" exults McCarthy. "I was your third act!" retorts Hellman. Ephron's play, alas, has two acts full of distractions and gimmicks. There are childhood flashbacks that force grown actresses to talk like widdle girls. The literary men in their lives (Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv) are trotted on and off the stage like stuffed dummies. There are actual stuffed dummies too--a cutesy stage device that wears thin quickly--and songs by Marvin Hamlisch and Craig Carnelia. The depths of pointlessness are reached in a vaudeville-style number featuring Frankie Fact and Dick...
...promised voters on July 26. A parliamentary inquiry only requires the support of 25% of the members of the Bundestag, so the investigation seems certain to go forward. The Social Democrats said they would demand a parallel investigation of election promises made by Schröder's defeated opponent, Edmund Stoiber. Social Democratic operatives desperately hope the negative mood will dissipate before February, when state elections will be held in Lower Saxony and Hesse. If the Social Democrats lose Lower Saxony, it could make passage of legislation even harder. And with the government in gridlock, many more German entrepreneurs will...
...hand in foreign policy--and of all the leading German politicians, he has the greatest feel and affection for the U.S. "I know the United States very well," he told TIME. "Bob Dylan was more important for my political orientation than Karl Marx." Moreover, Schroder's defeated opponent, conservative Edmund Stoiber, had made little secret of his desire to re-establish ties with the French on foreign policy. That would have helped marginalize British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Europe, something the Administration doesn't want to see happen to its most loyal ally...