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...cliche--the director also owes a debt to Francis Ford Coppola, whose Godfather technique of crosscutting between scenes of intense violence and blissful ordinariness he borrows--is matched by a taste for dubious historical speculation. Seeking to disarm critics on that score, Jordan has owned up to the usual minor sins of historical fiction: conflating characters, telescoping events, making reasonable guesses about unknown motives. But it would seem he has gone further than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MICHAEL COLLINS: WANT A REVOLUTION? | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

Editors Note: Ethan G. Drogin, Sports Editor of The Harvard Crimson, is a minor. His relation of these events is based completely on heresy. The Crimson absolves itself of any responsibility regarding the games described above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intoxicating Games | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

...first time in the history of the peace process, insisting that they honor the agreements they have made--something that they are are clearly unwilling to do--and so, in order to divert attention from this in the eyes of the world media, they are shamelessly exploiting a minor civic decision that hardly even concerns them to focus the blame and censure on Israel. The Western press and our European allies are all too ready to publicize and sympathize with their whines and laments while ignoring their flagrant violations of the peace accords, such as the continued operation of illegal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netanyahu Not to Blame for Failed Peace | 10/8/1996 | See Source »

This whole computer/internet thing leaves me a bit mystified. Aside from a very few niche applications in business and certain of the sciences, of what practical use are computers or the Internet? The minor applications in business and research are valuable, but otherwise computers look to me like nothing more than expensive toys--Barbie dolls for spoiled and bored grownups--and the Internet browser programs look suspiciously like this year's dresses for Barbie. MARTY MELTZER Morton Grove, Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 7, 1996 | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

RELEASED. BARRY GOLDWATER, 87, conservative icon and former Arizona Senator; from a Phoenix hospital following treatment for a minor stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 7, 1996 | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

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