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CINEMA How to handicap this summer's hot movies...
...Leonardo da Vinci, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin. But there is a price for fame and glory. "Onlies" are associated with a host of irksome psychological traits -- among them impaired social skills and a nagging need for attention. Now it seems they may also suffer from a distinct physical handicap: higher blood pressure...
...monument maker engrave her own tombstone," refuses to sleep with him. Max obediently follows her instructions to find someone new, but he faces a new challenge: impotence. For a man who had boasted that he "could do with women [what] no one, except the women involved, would believe," this handicap overshadows even the tragic death...
Under a "hate speech" rule adopted in 1989, members of the Brown community cannot subject "another person, group or class of persons to inappropriate, abusive, threatening or demeaning actions based on race, religion, gender, handicap, ethnicity, national origin or sexual orientation." It was this rule that provided the grounds for the Disciplinary Council's decision. With similarly vague policies at Harvard and other campuses around the country, the premises behind bans on abusive speech need to be examined...
That plan, however, had its own handicap. Washington's rationale for the originally proposed Baker-Saddam meeting was that the Iraqi leader, counseled only by sycophants who were reluctant to bring him bad tidings, was not getting the message that the U.S. was dead serious about taking him on. The tough-talking Baker was to deliver that news. But now the Secretary is to meet only with one of the "sycophants." "You're talking to the monkey, you're not talking to the organ-grinder himself," lamented Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. The encounter with Saddam...