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Branagh is a trollop for art. His bold mission is to ensure that everybody -- everybody on this planet for whom Shakespeare is unknown or a school punishment -- gets it, gets the power and the humor of the poetry, if not its unabridged grandeur. So he encourages Michael Keaton to play Dogberry, the lame-brained lawman, as a veritable triumvirate of Stooges -- all spitting and farts and head butts and scrotum grabbing. He wants similarly capitalized emotions from the romantic leads. Go bigger, higher, grander, clearer, he tells them. Speak loud if you speak love...
These ballooning projects create a self-perpetuating cycle of spending. In an effort to maintain their jobs, the military subculture battles the federal government for more money for wilder plans. It has virtually become the largest PAC (Political Action Committee) on the face of the planet. The U.S. already leads the world in defense systems, and these programs would only extend that lead--the military needs to learn...
WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE AFTER ENDING THE cold war and reversing the arms race? How about saving the planet? That's the latest assignment for Mikhail Gorbachev, having assumed the presidency of the International Green Cross, a new environmental organization that hopes to do for man-made disasters what the Red Cross does for the natural kind...
...that genocide is occurring once again. As of today, an estimated 100,000 have died and a million people have been displaced during the war raging in the Balkans. Yet I struggle with my disbelief at the inaction of those of us who hope to erase genocide from the planet, from President Clinton to the politically and religiously active communities at Harvard. How dare we sit back and proclaim with self-assurance that our ceremonies, will prevent--and indeed, are currently preventing--genocide from taking place again? Until we assure that genocide is not happening anywhere, until our reminders stir...
...reason, he and many colleagues believe, may have been a mass extinction of many of the planet's species late in the Triassic period. It could have been caused by the impact of a massive asteroid or comet, perhaps, or by dramatic climate changes triggered as Pangaea separated to form distinct continents. As other animals disappeared wholesale, the dinosaurs evolved rapidly to fill vacant ecological niches. Says Sereno: "It's very difficult to argue that the dinosaurs had something the others didn't. Instead of evolving because they were better, maybe they evolved because there was a sudden vacuum...