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...himself, on his associates, on a chance universe in which they inhabit one of the chancier corners. He can't prevent himself from falling in love (with Amy Brenneman's innocent bookstore clerk). He can't prevent his most valuable henchman and his wife (Val Kilmer and Ashley Judd) from marital misbehavior that threatens his enterprise. He can't, in general, prevent blighted human nature from scribbling all over his neat blueprints. This leaves him vulnerable to a policeman--nice irony here--who is more accepting of the world's anarchy than...
...increasingly common. The Serbs are especially apprehensive because they know the Muslims of the Balkans, along with those of the wider world, possess the most effective weapon of all in such conflicts--the demographic weapon. Look for the name Kosovo in the news in the future. LLOYD JUDD Oxley, Australia...
...Second Amendment as it is to the lives of law-enforcement personnel throughout the nation. For an N.R.A. official to call officers "jackbooted government thugs" is repugnant. My resignation means one less member whose dues will be available for use by such unprincipled people as LaPierre. RICHARD L. JUDD Police Commissioner New Britain, Connecticut
Senate Republicans, in a move that could seize the deficit-cutting initiative from more radical House members, unveiled proposals for nearly half a trillion dollars in painful spending cuts by the year 2000. A Senate G.O.P. task force, led by Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, seeks to force $475 billion in cuts from massive entitlement programs: $89 billion from projected welfare costs of $600 billion, and as much as $275 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, which are now projected to cost $1.82 trillion by the decade's end. Also included: a scheme to shrink cost-of-living increases...
...clothing with shoulder pads. His students are unconvinced. What was so great, they shout, about an era that gave us Robert James Waller and the Ricki Lake show? Ah, the professor replies sagely, but during the '90s one could attend a movie safely knowing that it would not star Judd Nelson...