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...Gardiner to E.T. -- and to the heroes of Burton's Beetlejuice and Pee-wee's Big Adventure. When the Avon lady brings him into her spectacularly bland neighborhood, she unawares sets his creativity on a collision course with her friends' anxious conformity. At first the housewives accept Edward's handicap as a gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even a group portrait of the all-suburban family. And how pleased Edward is to be a guest of this...
Roger Lafontant, former chief of Baby Doc Duvalier's brutal Tonton Macoutes, has added a strange new chapter to Haiti's political scene by running for President in the Dec. 16 elections. He enters the race with an unusual handicap: a warrant for his arrest was issued in July for crimes he allegedly committed with the Macoutes. Haiti's attorney general is reminding citizens that anyone who shelters the strongman is subject to prosecution. With typical swagger, Lafontant opposes the presence of outside observers at the elections, and officials fear his campaign will serve as a beachhead for the return...
...lesser offices too we apply the standards of a warrior culture. Female candidates are routinely advised to overcome the handicap of their gender by talking "tough." Thus, for example, Dianne Feinstein has embraced capital punishment, while Colorado senatorial candidate Josie Heath has found it necessary to announce that although she is the mother of an 18-year-old son, she is prepared to vote for war. Male candidates in some of the fall contests are finding their military records under scrutiny. No one expects them, as elected officials in a civilian government, to pick up a spear or a sling...
Harvard Police are clamping down on students who violate University rules by chaining their bicycles to handicap ramps, railings or the insides of buildings...
...other sport can you sip champagne and nibble strawberries on a velvety green lawn in pristine outfits that will never suffer from sweat stains? Since mental acuity rather than muscles, speed or stamina is what matters, it is a truly coed sport where women can play men without a handicap. It is also perfect for those who are no longer thirtysomething or in perfect shape. American Croquet Association president Stan Patmor, his tailor-made plus fours obscuring a few extra pounds, has seen the Sonoma-Cutrer championships grow dramatically since he became tournament director in 1986. "The game works...