Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LUMBINI, NEPAL: Beneath the Maya Devi temple to Buddha's mother in this southwestern Nepal town lies a recently uncovered complex of rooms that may transform this remote hamlet into a sort of mecca for the world's 340 million Bhuddists. After carefully studying the chambers discovered 9 months ago, a multinational team of archaeologists has announced that the rooms prove that ancient inscriptions claiming the site is Buddha's birthplace are true. The inscriptions were found on a pillar at the ancient Maya Devi temple erected by Ashoka, an Indian king who converted to Buddhism and spread the religion...
...rebels as "10 days of pain, impotence and shame." But Yeltsin, with a flourish of newspeak reminiscent of Soviet days, simply declared himself a winner. His troops, he claimed at a news conference in the Kremlin, killed 153 Chechens, captured 28, and freed 82 hostages after besieging Pervomaiskoye, a hamlet in far-off Dagestan. "We have taught Dudayev a sound lesson," Yeltsin said, referring to Chechen separatist leader Jokhar Dudayev. Now, Yeltsin threatened, Russia will hit more rebel strongholds "to put an end to terrorism on Russian soil...
...Midwinter's Tale, will be shown at the Sundance Festival this week, while Sense and Sensibility, adapted by his erstwhile wife, EMMA THOMPSON, is still charming audiences nationwide. The films have eerie similarities: they're loosely based on classics (Tale is about a troupe of actors trying to stage Hamlet in a small town); they're dialogue driven; and in each, siblings find romantic partners. But there are telling differences. Branagh's film is small budget, black and white and--some feat--has a happier ending than Thompson's. The two aren't saying what they think of each other...
...Clinton might have devoted days to Hamlet-like meditations over how to respond to much an insult. Not so the new Clinton, bolstered by a fresh spine from his stands over Bosnia and the budget. Such a man would not such an insult sitting down. That afternoon he sent White House spokesperson Mike McCurry to inform the sports reporters in the White House press corps that "The President, if he were not the President, would have delivered a more forceful response to that, on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose...
...HAMLET Out on the edges, in the supporting cast, one could quibble with this Broadway import from London. But who wanted to carp when Ralph Fiennes stood so commandingly at center stage, embodying a "sweet prince" of roiling depths and racing intelligence...