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...pert charms. And Michael Schultz's Livin' Large!, a kind of Homeboy Alone, hatches broad but pointed comedy from the perspective of a black street reporter (Terrence (("T.C.")) Carson) who lands a job with an all-white news team. But most of the films sketch, in furious strokes, a portrait of the ghetto and of its most feared and hopeless denizen, the black male...
Hospital administrators and doctors, who give interviews in rooms invariably decorated with a portrait of Saddam Hussein smiling benevolently, are often reluctant to admit the extent of the health disaster they are witnessing. But signs of distress are everywhere. Many hospitals were damaged by allied bombing, including three in Baghdad and two in Basra. Completely destroyed was the only hospital in the country that performed kidney transplants and advanced heart surgery. In other cases, physical damage to medical facilities was caused by the civilian uprisings that followed...
Dershowitz's half-hearted pretense of a revealing self-portrait tells the story of a man whose entire life is a long series of revelations about how right he was all along. It reminded me of a T-shirt slogan that reads, "Once I thought I was wrong, but it turned out to be a mistake...
Friedrich, whose 12th book, a portrait of Paris in the time of the artist Edouard Manet, will be published next spring, found that TIME's traditional blend of detail and analysis served him well on Desert Storm. "I edited the book much the same way I have edited at TIME," he says. "There's a different time frame, and the chapters are longer than a TIME article, but the essential spirit of the thing is the same: the attitude of reasonably objective observers describing what we have seen or learned." And, we might add, enjoying the luxury of sufficient time...
...bill to the bottom. The thread on a $100 bill, for example, will bear the lettering USA 100. Visible only if held up to direct light, the thread cannot be duplicated by copiers, which use reflected light. The new currency will also contain microengravings around the portrait. First to be circulated will be the $100 denomination, which should appear by late summer. The bureau is starting with big bills, says spokesman Ira Polikoff, "because those are the most susceptible to counterfeiting." Next on the drawing board: $50 and $20 bills...