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...Georghes Muresan of who-knows-where (not to mention Anthony Mason of Miami) all standing sternly, introspectively, for a tired old song they hear night after night? As the national anthem strikes up before every National Basketball Association game, the trash-talking, the rivalries and the sneaker contracts all fade into the background as the players appear to become consumed, if only for a moment, by their national pride. Television cameras--on the rare occasions when the anthem is televised-- zoom in for tight close-ups of the young men, evoking images of battle-weary soldiers going back out into...
DANIAL DANZER KNEW HE WAS DYING of AIDS. Of all the fears he faced, losing his mind was the worst. When his faculties started to fade, he wanted to hasten his death. But his doctor could not help; Washington State law prohibited physicians from assisting the terminally ill in committing suicide. So Danzer stopped taking his insulin. After five days of convulsions, he finally died. Says his partner, Jeff Halsey: "He might have been spared some of his greatest pain and retained some of his dignity if he and his physician had received help from a compassionate code of laws...
...experts in business and economics, I found a rumination that cheered me greatly. The particular expert being quoted was Bill Gates. "Men and women are worried that their own jobs will become obsolete...that economic upheaval will create wholesale unemployment... These are legitimate concerns. Entire professions and industries will fade. But new ones will flourish...The net result is that more gets done, raising the overall standard of living in the long run." Maybe, just maybe, the future is rosier than we think...
...does not pretend to examine an insane asylum, but rather an ordinary halfway house. Sarnat is more attuned to moments of deadpan humor than sticking to feelings of absolute despair and frustration. Like a talk-show, "WASTED!" has an episodic quality; the scenes are quick and short, with numerous fade-outs in between. Some of the actors, including Potier and Jacobs, have enough savvy to know that as much as their characters are supposed to be real people, their personas are meant to subvert the stereotypical notions of estranged youth...
...Dole supporters yesterday said in house ideological battles would fade away as the party focuses on Dole's leadership strengths and on overtaking the White House...