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...SHOULD WIN: More ambiguity here.Okay, not Hanks--he's done better. NotBenigni--too one-note. Probably not Norton,because his role did not require the subtlety andsophistication of Nolte's and McKellen's. Butbetween these two? It's a tossup. The performancesare so different and so good that it's almostimpossible to say, but if pressed, I'll nameNolte. He's been working too long and hard withoutample recognition; at least McKellen's a knight
Harvard sophomore Grayson Witcher added a second performance of note, beating Dartmouth's Beau River, the No. 9 player in the country, in the consolation draw...
...RRATA: I'd like to congratulate the hundreds of people who won last week's Catch Quittner Err contest--the folks who correctly noted that 3Com's PalmPilot does not run Windows CE, as was stated. Indeed, as someone who owns a Pilot, I know the machine's genius derives from its own operating system, Palm OS. I should have caught the error when it found its way into my copy, but I didn't. However, only four of you noticed the other blooper: the captions under the Sharp Mobilon Pro and Tripad were inadvertently swapped. Shame...
Selling peace in the Balkans is a tough proposition. But in the complex talks between Kosovo's ethnic Albanians and their Serb rulers that adjourned last week in France, peace found a new promoter: Veton Surroi, a 37-year-old ethnic Albanian. The negotiations ended on a difficult note. Surroi and the other Albanian delegates agreed to a peace plan that would allow them limited self-rule for three years. As part of their agreement they made an unusual request--that they be allowed two weeks to return to Kosovo to sell the idea to their fellow Albanians...
...scenic parks, natural springs and lakes, historic German settlement buildings and mild climate have been attracting tourists for generations. Now visitors to New Braunfels, Texas, are starting to take note of the surrounding Texas hill country as a nice place to stay for more than a weekend, making Comal County the fastest growing in Texas...