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...sent to clinics that administer methadone. But that cure is nearly as troublesome as the disease it treats. Methadone produces its own high and is so addictive that it has its own black market. To receive it legally, addicts must report every day to authorized clinics, something many are loath to do. Before buprenorphine, Ted tried methadone and found the experience a lot like taking heroin--only he had to get his fix in front of a mangy group of drug pushers and criminals. The scene made him feel closer to drugs, not free of them...
Just as Seinfeld is quick to give his co-stars and collaborators the lion's share of credit for the show's success ("My real talent," he says, "is in picking people"), he is loath to ascribe any cultural significance to Seinfeld, even while in a somewhat valedictory mood. The show's aims, he insists, are entirely unpretentious: "I really aspire to The Abbott and Costello Show. That's my favorite sitcom. We walk down the street and bump into Bania, the bad comedian, the way Lou Costello would bump into Stinky, and then a scene comes...
...remains vastly entertaining even during its most tenuous moments. De Niro, for the first time in ages, is wonderfully likeable in the antihero role. We should hate, loath, despise Brean for his shameless dishonesty--but we don't. Instead, we welcome his machinations and feel strangely vindicated by the possibility of his pulling off the scheme. Hoffman is the perfect counterpart to De Niro's smug political monster. He vamps and raves about how 'producers get no respect,' and we get the strange sensation that he is himself a unabashed politician...
...summit between China's Jiang Zemin and Bill Clinton [WORLD, Nov. 3] was at best the pause that represses. Suddenly, we have an American leader who is loath to berate publicly a brutal regime about human rights. And this is the same Clinton who insisted that American troops be deployed in places like Haiti and Bosnia. J. ANTHONY BLACK New York City...
...retreat on prison labor. But berating Beijing on human rights only injures its sense of sovereignty and challenges the regime's legitimacy. Jiang has given little indication that he is willing to do any of those things for the summit's sake, and China experts say he is especially loath to be seen on foreign soil giving in to U.S. pressure. Nor does he want to be upstaged in the press by any freed dissidents...