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...unclear whether this rule actually obtains, it is noteworthy that the White House has acknowledged that there are limits to its application. Iran belongs to a select group of countries that are, in the words of an administration official quoted in this week's New York Times, "beyond the pale...
...member of any of the social clubs. The live-in maid next door says Lisa rarely left the house. When she did, she wore jeans and T shirts or athletic sweats--and according to the apartment building's security guard, "her face looked angry, thin and pale." Apart from her husband, she seemed to have only one other constant friend, a woman who may later have helped the Leesons with moving arrangements when they fled Singapore...
Schwartz remembers CBS chairman William Paley turning pale as Schwartz called Gilligan's Island a "social microcosm" when he pitched the idea for the show. Schwartz still calls it that. "I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications," he says. "On a much larger scale this happens all the time. Eventually, the Israelis are going to have to learn to live with the Arabs. We have one world, and Gilligan's Island was my way of saying that." Gilligan and the Skipper as Arafat and Rabin...
John is the sum of what he has learned and, of course, borrowed. On the new album you'll hear echoes of A Whiter Shade of Pale in the powerful ballad Man; a hint of mid-period Beatles in the benign Latitude and the jaunty Please; a great big blast of the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil in the infectious, wondrously bleak Pain ("My name is pain/ You belong to me/ You're all I ever wanted/ I'm all you'll ever be"). But hey, 90% of everything is theft. John built these songs on solid, familiar...
...more trusting and vulnerable. ``Even though I'm the most private person you ever want to meet, I let my guard down right away,'' he says of their online courtship. In 1993, two years after meeting, the couple married. The problems of cementing relationships in cyberspace pale beside the challenges of forging whole enclaves. In fact, among the cyberintelligentsia, debate rages as to whether the concept of ``community'' even exists in cyberspace. Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community, says, ``I want to dispel the notion that a computer network is by itself a community -- a place where at least...