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...United Daughters of the Confederacy had had their way with the Senate in the past. Four times this century the Senate had renewed the patent on their insignia, which includes the seven-starred Confederate flag -- an emotional symbol that continues to divide blacks and whites in the South. But in May the Judiciary Committee decided against renewal. And when Senator Jesse Helms, a proud son of the South, sneaked it in as part of a larger bill, he learned that he wasn't the only one who felt passionately about the Civil...
...first black woman to sit in the Senate, Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois, had amassed a spotty record in her first seven months. But she took command of the Senate floor last week as she demanded that the legislators reconsider their approval of the patent. "This vote is about race. It is about racial symbols, the racial past, and the single most painful episode in American history." Her voice shaking, she declared, "It is absolutely unacceptable to me and to millions of Americans, black or white, that we would put the imprimatur of the United States Senate on a symbol...
...things are more or less clear: the year is 2007, and Harry Wyckoff (James Belushi, stiff-backed and hollow-cheeked) is a patent attorney living comfortably in Los Angeles with his wife (Dana Delany) and two kids. His life starts taking strange turns when an ex-girlfriend (Kim Cattrall) seeks his help in locating her missing son. The mission turns out to be a ruse to lead Harry to Senator Tony Kreutzer (Robert Loggia) -- presidential aspirant, television entrepreneur and guru of a political-religious movement known as New Realism. Kreutzer's neofascist aspirations have something to do with hallucinogenic drugs...
Lightman's Einstein, a 26-year-old patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland, is tormented with dreams about time. Every night he envisions a new world where time affects the inhabitants of Bern differently. Each vision is organized like a fable, ending with an important message for the reader on how to live life best...
...expose a mill owner who is polluting the town's drinking water with mercury. In another, she fights with a bank officer who won't lend her money because she's a single woman. Indians in Dr. Quinn are not hostile, just misunderstood; a hawker of phony patent medicines turns out to be a surgeon who grew disillusioned after witnessing battlefield carnage during the Civil War. Seymour, as the town's doctor, psychologist, police force and environmental chemist rolled into one, is the biggest anachronism of all. But a right purty...