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...Martha's Vineyard was ensconced in a church and used to the dramatic arc of a sermon--of sin and repentance. It was a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, and there to introduce Clinton was Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, an authentic hero of the civil rights movement. The hours before were filled with conference calls about Russia and the impending Northwest Airlines strike, and as Clinton was riding to the chapel, he was still stitching together a speech he had started working on just before lunch, jotting down notes on a two-page...
...Elmer Gantry in the flesh and in the heart, and his heart is many chambered. The hero of Sinclair Lewis' great novel about oversize human frailty, made into an even better movie that starred Burt Lancaster and his aggressive teeth, was, like Clinton, a born embracer: "He had a voice made for promises." Discovering his calling as a revivalist preacher, Gantry rose to prominence on the words, "Love is the morning and the evening star." That was his sermon, which did double duty as his seduction line for women. Eventually his wandering eye brought him down; his once adoring congregation...
...International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague is set to try those accused of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, but it may run out of suspects. Earlier this month, SLOBODAN MILJKOVIC, known as Lugar, was shot by a man with whom he had been brawling. The recipient of a hero's funeral, Lugar was wanted for ordering the execution of 16 civilians in May 1992 and killing two others himself. While the murder of Lugar seems ordinary, his lawyer, TATOMIR LEKOVIC, claims Lugar was assassinated because he knew too much about the roles top Serbian officials played in the Bosnian...
...deliberations comes amid signs that the missile strikes have increased hostility toward the U.S. in the Islamic world: "Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia who'd never even heard of Osama bin Laden before are now being told in mosques around the world that he's a true Islamic hero," says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk. The 22-member Arab League, many of whose members are pro-Western governments, urged the U.S. to refrain from further actions "which may arouse public outrage." Unless Washington has firm evidence of chemical-weapons production at the Khartoum factory, U.N. scrutiny...
...brand. Clancy's idea for the book grew out of a PC game of the same name (due out Aug. 27) from Red Storm Entertainment--a company Clancy founded two years ago. Game players will face the same sort of predicaments that befall John Clark, the novel's hero. Next we'd like to see the game that inspired Bridget Jones's Diary...