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...mildly, the Bush administration just had a great week. In addition to the President's triumph in the mid-term elections, two months of patient American diplomacy at the United Nations eventually produced a draft resolution on Iraq which won the unanimous endorsement of the Security Council. The way is now open for U.N. inspectors to return to Iraq to secure its compliance with past resolutions; if Baghdad stiffs the U.N. again, "serious consequences" are promised, and everyone knows what the Bush team understands those two words to mean...
...likes it because it is less likely to lead to price controls. Democrats oppose the measure and prefer a government-administered benefit. Drug industry--backed groups like the United Seniors Association spent millions this fall on advertising that benefited G.O.P. candidates. A Republican-sponsored, less expansive version of a patient's bill of rights also has the edge...
...mission to disillusion readers of this unfair prejudice. According to Ondaatje, who spoke about the book last Monday at the Harvard Book Store, Murch is one of the great unknowns in the art world today. Besides editing the screen adaptation of Ondaatje’s novel The English Patient and winning multiple Oscars, Murch has worked on The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Ghost...
...There?s also a movie from this year, Law Chi-leung?s ?Inner Senses,? with Leslie Cheung as a psychiatrist gradually unhinged by a patient who ... sees ghosts. There?s a smooth creepiness at work here, and it?s always a treat to see Leslie go mad on screen, but the picture?s function in this series is mainly to provide a comparison between the relatively reserved, calculated product of today and the magnificently unsettling movie spew of colonial days...
...Lily Chung is the prettiest, most pathetic patient in an asylum for retarded young adults. Ben Ng is the institution?s caring, friendly boss ? except when he sees a woman dressed in red. Then he morphs into a twitching, grinning, blood-drooling rapist. He attacks her, is tried for the crime and acquitted. Still he desires her, with a white-hot lust that has him emptying a tray of ice cubes in his briefs to stanch the testosterone surge. After the rape, she had shaved her pubis from pain and shame; now shaves his head to become a priest...