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Coop President Jeremiah P. Murphy '73 said Commencement week doesn't beat early September, book-buying period, in sales volume, but it is peak season for the insignia items...
...career hits a new, if bumpy, peak with the erotic thriller Sliver. Shooting is shadowed by rumors of tension between co-stars Sharon Stone and William Baldwin. Then the steamy, voyeur-happy sex in the film threatens to + saddle it with a box-office-stifling NC-17 rating, and dozens of trims are made in the final cut to get an R rating. With extensive retooling going on, the buzz is downright dismal, and Paramount even declines to hold advance reviewers' screenings. In the midst of all this, he leaves his wife of 24 years and takes up with...
Hollywood is not new to politics. Stars often use their fame to appeal for certain causes. This phenomenon may have reached a peak this year with Richard Gere's plea for Tibet (certainly a worthy cause) at the Oscar ceremony...
...famine that snuffed out 300,000 lives in 1992 may have passed its peak before the Marines landed. But there is no doubt that the American-led intervention saved many. Julie Bryant, a Red Cross nurse outside Bardera, recalls that often children were trundled in in wheelbarrows, too weak to walk. "Look," she says, pointing to a boy registered in her logbook. "That child should have been dead. Now there is such life here: they argue, they play football." As she speaks, a group of kids runs past chasing a pet baboon with a red cross painted on its bottom...
Beyond the statecraft is Clinton's biggest assignment: persuading the American people that their children and their billions should be spent on Bosnia. (Maintaining a fully deployed armored division of 25,000 at peak readiness in Bosnia for one year could cost $5 billion.) It is a long reach to argue that vital U.S. interests are involved, beyond a preference for peace and stability in all parts of the world. With the rationalizations peeled off, the West's concern is prompted by the moral imperative and is essentially humanitarian. That is why France and Britain sent troops to escort...