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...even in the hearts or minds of the Israeli and Palestinian leaders meeting since July 11 under the auspices of President Clinton at Camp David in Maryland's secluded Catoctin Mountains. The secret to peace in the Middle East is easy to find--it's scribbled on the loose-leaf paper of a black, flexible-plastic three-ring binder, just like the kind you used in high school. The binder belongs to Dennis Ross...
...voice that cut like a foreclosure notice. That got him small, dark roles (he beat up Elvis Presley in King Creole, took a shot at Audrey Hepburn in Charade) until Wilder and Simon put him above the title. Then he suavely juggled two genres: romantic comedy (A New Leaf, House Calls) and 32 years of grumpy-buddy movies with Jack Lemmon. He had a few weaknesses, but optimism wasn't one of them. "I'm a degenerate gambler," he said in 1994. "If I get lucky, I'll die before I go broke." He went out (as a dying meanie...
...memory-pill lineup is ginkgo biloba, the dried leaf of the maidenhair tree, thought to improve circulation and, in theory, memory. While ginkgo is still considered an alternative medication, it has caused such a stir and gained such a following that even so button-down a company as Bayer, better known for aspirin, has begun marketing the stuff...
...interconnected, high-tech society: he's a Federal Express efficiency expert. "We took this guy who is modern man to the nth degree," Hanks says, "whose life had been computers and 747s and packages, and reduced him to lapping water that he's collected in a rainstorm from a leaf." Hence, says Broyles, the two-word title: "He is cast away. He has to cast away all the elements of civilized life to survive...
...slip 29. Prefix with center 30. Electric guitar pioneer Paul 31. Supreme Court is split on constitutionality of this law 33. Pound sound 37. Court-game finale? 39. Clinton will not sell four __ destroyers to Taiwan 40. Libidinous god 42. Bandleader Shaw 43. They're occasionally stripped 45. Fig-leaf wearer, stereotypically 46. Succotash morsel 48. Publican's offerings 49. Called on account of rain 50. Monsieur's assent 52. Like the Log Cabin Republicans...