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...generations past. Nothing is without a cost, and in this case payment is exacted in lives with more "quantity" but not necessarily better "quality." Reverence for life must find balance with human compassion to ensure the dignity that each of us should be allowed in dying. MELISSA QUADE Paw Paw, Michigan Via E-mail
...half-hour chat show with a single guest, he uses it with irony, as a mirror to check how very fabulous he looks. Or, after the guest has uttered some mild inanity, Kinnear stares ahead mutely, as if he'd just been whacked on the skull by a bear paw but is too stoic to wince. It's this bland poise that keeps him from blinking when film stardom stares him in the face...
DIED. ARTHUR KROPP, 37, president of the liberal lobbying group People for the American Way; from AIDS; in Washington. Kropp went to work for TV producer Norman Lear's organization -- a direct response to Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority -- in 1984. PAW's ranks swelled to 300,000 during Kropp's tenure as it weighed in against Robert Bork and the "flag-burning amendment"-and for gay rights and free speech...
...slayer of the Old Order, was naturally pleased by this adulation, but also somewhat shaken. True, he had presumed to plan months before the Nov. 8 election exactly how he would lead the Republican House that begins its work this week. But he hadn't planned on having strangers paw at his garments, nor on the intense public and press interest in his every casual utterance, nor on the spectacle of the President scrambling to pull himself aboard the Republican tax-cut bandwagon. Gingrich, who classifies most experiences as either neat or weird, pronounced these very weird. Yet he takes...
...weeks ago, at a Las Vegas video convention, Jeffrey Katzenberg, chieftain of the Disney movie jungle, was joined onstage by an adult lion to tout The Lion King, the most successful film in the company's history. Suddenly the beast wrapped its paw around Katzenberg's thigh. The audience gasped, the trainer scrambled, and the wiry mogul wriggled free, raising his arms in victory...