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...Then, as if ordained by some law of pop thermodynamics, came a very long rough patch: beginning with Buffalo Bill in 1976, Altman movie after Altman movie failed at the box office and displeased the tastemaking establishment. The director even tried his hand at an expensive high-concept movie -- the $22 million Popeye, starring Robin Williams -- and it seemed only to certify his career death. During the '80s Altman lived mainly in Paris, returning to the States to direct small movies (Streamers, Beyond Therapy) that did little to rekindle the passion of his erstwhile devotees. Not many people saw Tanner...
...Federal officials are meeting in Ottawa to try to patch together a new agreement on Quebec's status. Could they conceivably come up with something you could...
...just what is meant by an "individual"? A patch of grass that spread from a single seed may be considered an individual organism. The same is true with fungi, which, incidentally, are now looked upon as a kingdom separate from plants and animals. Complicating matters is the fact that pieces of the A. bulbosa may have broken off over the millenniums. If so, do the pieces count as one organism or many? There's no agreed upon answer, says Clive Brasier, a British botanist. Insisting on a yes or no, he says, "gets to be a Guinness Book of Records...
...royal family at first tried to patch things up but by last week was in high dudgeon. "The knives are out for Fergie at the palace," said Paul Reynolds, BBC Radio's court correspondent. "I have never known such anger here." Reason: suspicions that the duchess had engineered a leak of the separation story. Fergie's friends denied it, but the upstart had already angered the Queen by hiring her own lawyers. "Unheard-of impertinence," huffed a senior palace official...
...have long been on a collision course over loan guarantees to help resettle Jews from the former Soviet Union. Last week the crunch finally came, sinking any chance of obtaining the guarantees anytime soon and pushing the two countries' ties into what one U.S. diplomat calls "the roughest patch I've seen...