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...opinions concerning homosexuals in the military do not necessarily mirror his opinions of homosexuals as a group, but only apply to this one issue...
Three of the star acts illustrate the show's underlying theme: family. Twin sisters Sarah and Karyne Steben -- Sharon Stone in duplicate on the high bar -- perform their mirror-image calisthenics in a space as intimate as the womb. The brothers Marco and Paulo Lorador bend their Apollonian physiques to some wondrous heavy lifting. And the Tchelnokovs (Nikolai, his wife Galina Karableva and their impossibly lithe son Anton, 7) describe patterns of living sculpture that are less physical than mystical. In the harmonious flow of their fearless feats, these performers might be parents and siblings from another, ideal world, where...
...first time police officers went on trial for beating Rodney King, Los Angeles looked at itself in the mirror and saw Caliban. Not everyone recognized the same monster. Some saw racist authority and biased justice. Some saw a lawless citizen and mob madness. But for almost everyone, inside and outside the smoking city, the trial became a symbolic test of national values -- something that trials, with their focus on factual specifics and winner-take-all outcomes, are not constructed to be. The acquittals were so shocking to a nation mesmerized by a videotape, and so achingly rejected in riot...
...mirror, mirror on the MAC wall, who will be the most proud of them all? Well, it looks like a Crimson-Tiger showdown...
...truth, Kanzi's achievements are no greater than those claimed for Koko or other subjects in early language studies. His real significance is that scientists are more willing to accept the results as valid because of the tight controls used during the studies. For instance, a one-way mirror prevented Kanzi and Alia from seeing who gave them commands, while those tracking what the ape and toddler did in response wore earphones to prevent them from hearing the requests. Each sentence was also utterly new to both ape and child. The young bonobo has thus helped break a two-decade...