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...first major public address since becoming Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Henry H. "Hugh" Shelton told a packed crowd at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum Thursday night to be weary of complascency as the United States military shifts priorities nearly a decade after the end of the Cold...
...spate of new books focused on slaves and enslavers. Velma Maia Thomas offers Lest We Forget (Crown; $29.95), an interactive children's book serious enough for parents. Readers remove slave sale receipts from envelopes and pull back a paper ship hatch to find slaves stacked like cordwood. British historian Hugh Thomas (no relation) has published The Slave Trade (Simon & Schuster; $37.50). Tracking the barter of Africans from 1440 to 1870, Thomas ranges through Europe, Arabia, Africa and the Americas. As societies spin and tug at one another like a warped solar system, a sad message emerges: no hand is clean...
...likely; State Department officials weren't so sanguine. Heavy B-52 bombers will be based on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, a British territory on loan to the U.S., and B-1s will probably fly out of Bahrain, Qatar or the United Arab Emirates. Says Army General Hugh Shelton, the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "We're confident that we have the capability to carry out whatever we are asked...
...policymakers and moneymen, though, some quietly wonder if there isn't more going on. Maybe the barking dog really was trying to alert us to budding economic troubles before it was summarily dispatched to the pound. "It's always wise to take the message of the market seriously," says Hugh Johnson, chief investment strategist at the brokerage firm First Albany. "The message is that the currency crisis in Southeast Asia will affect not only the economies of Southeast Asia but also that...
Hackford offers some dazzling visuals, including an artificial lake on top of a skyscraper and a chilling shot of Keanu Reeves walking out of a hospital to find all of Manhattan empty. Milton's penthouse exudes an atmosphere of slick, menacing, kinky-campy decadence--it's Hugh Hefner meets the Marquis de Sade. Hackford is smart enough not to let the cinematography get in the way of Pacino: as Milton, the actor is his own special effect. And when the actual special effects--including a wall sculpture that comes to swarming, slithery life--do appear, they pale in comparison...