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Administration officials whisper that Director James Woolsey's days are numbered; some are beginning to float the names of possible successors. A joint Congress-White House commission will examine what should be done with the CIA. While it is unlikely to follow New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan's not altogether facetious suggestion that the CIA be abolished, the commission might recommend slashing the agency's $3 billion budget and 20,000- person staff and giving some of its intelligence-gathering functions to the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency or State Department while turning over the running of many...
...lieutenant loses his legs. A certain horror attends the explosions and deaths but so does a strong feeling that things here are happening by the book. As indeed they are. The grunts have not died in vain: they have died as a plot device, to facilitate Gump's upward float -- and the film's apparent message: act decent, stay positive (brains optional), and everything will be fine...
...reruns (Hart to Hart, Batman, Family Affair), the channel features a pet show, a consumer guide to rock CDs and a collectibles program. If it weren't for a Nightline-style interview show hosted by former CBS correspondent Jane Wallace, the network would be so insubstantial that it might float away...
...uncle/ cousin/grandparent who just happens to be a crackhead/alcoholic/satanic cult leader. And now here's Mikal Gilmore, brother of executed killer Gary Gilmore, with Shot in the Heart (Doubleday; 404 pages; $24.95), a book about his troubled clan. One might expect this effort to be another grotesque float in the continuing parade of household horrors. Instead Mikal, a writer for Rolling Stone, has crafted a powerful, well-researched work that rises loftily above the usual dysfunctional muck...
Some of the bodies lie motionless on the Ugandan shore. Others float in the breaking waves or bob against tangled beds of water hyacinth. Most are mutilated: limbs slashed, heads missing, a scattering of pale forms indistinguishable from one another except the ways in which they died. The corpses, swept as many as 60 miles by the rain-swollen Kagera River in Rwanda to the edges of Lake Victoria, are the latest evidence of a savage...