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...Chechen peace agreement takes effect today, TIME's Sally Donnelly reports that both sides are withdrawing from the seven-month war moreout of exhaustionthan in victory. The peace agreement does nothing to addressthe underlying cause of the war: the issue of Chechen independence."Although both sides have made noises about talks, nothing concrete has happened." Nor is an agreement likely soon. Chechen leader Jokhar Duduyev has already denounced the accord, Donnelly notes, while theRussian government fears the political repercussions of Chechen independence."This is really a crucial time for the Russian confederation. There are a quite a few republics -- Tatarstan...
...veto the legislation, the Administration has misgivings about it. "This bill does a lot to the consumer but not much for the consumer," says Greg Simon, the chief domestic-policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore. Simon argues that allowing media moguls such unrestricted privileges would create "the Pottersville effect," after the dream sequence in It's a Wonderful Life. "Jimmy Stewart comes back, and Potter owns the whole town," Simon says. "That's what we're talking about here...
Those suits in turn have spawned a common and misplaced perception that compliance invites astronomical costs and potentially bankrupting litigation. In fact, a new Louis Harris & Associates survey of 404 corporate executives, 81% of whom have modified their offices since the law went into effect, found that the median cost of making the workplace more accessible is just $223 per disabled person. Two-thirds said the ADA had not invited any increase in lawsuits. Even so, hiring of the disabled by large corporations has barely nudged forward over the past decade. More dismally, the percentage of small businesses that have...
...studio that a little Mad Max ripoff originally written for B-movie schlock king Roger Corman grew into the most expensive film ever made. It's worse that Waterworld, in its final ambitious form, provides a slow ride on very bumpy surf. So much effort expended, to so little effect...
...Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note), he squeezes fresh insight and nuance out of fossilized tunes like My Funny Valentine, Bye Bye Blackbird and Porter's I Love Paris by accelerating the tempos, throwing in breakneck stops and starts and reassembling the melodies as if shuffling a deck of cards. The effect is to make sentimental and familiar numbers sound strangely renewed. "There's really no point in covering standards if you're not going to make them sound fresh," Terrasson says. Anyone who listens to his treatment of a standby such as Time After Time will agree...