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Male movie stars didn't always have to act like commandos to assert their machismo. How many bad guys did Clark Gable or Cary Grant kill in their careers as Hollywood heroes? Precious few, because life--even a villain's life--was held more precious then. Maybe the old movies were naive, but we'll take naivete over the thoughtless, numberless carnage that makes the modern action film a Bosnia for fun and profit...
Those who lost something precious in the blast--their loved one, their limb, their ability to see or hear, their capacity for joy--have earned this point of view. But what about the rest of us? While the horrific scale of McVeigh's crime seems to demand the ultimate penalty, there's something unsettling about the way so much of America is gearing up for a good old-fashioned grudge killing. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 78% of respondents--82% of men and 75% of women--wanted McVeigh to receive the death penalty. (About the same percentage favored...
...warehouse is someplace in Windhoek, capital of the southern African nation of Namibia. The exact location is a closely guarded secret for the treasure it conceals is so precious that it is informally known as "white gold." Inside, in room after room, stuffed onto metal shelves that reach from floor to ceiling, are tens of tons of gleaming ivory--the tusks of African elephants carefully collected by government agents over the past seven years and stockpiled here. The cache is valued at hundreds of millions of dollars...
...problem the world's media have with DIANA these days is that she's too photogenic to leave alone but there's precious little new or interesting to say about her. So July's Vanity Fair has taken a unique approach: it's running a story on what it's like to photograph her. What these snaps of an unguarded, somewhat tousled Di signify, claims VF, is that the former princess is ready to slough off the old and embrace the new. Further evidence is her decision, at her son William's suggestion, to auction off some old frocks...
...natural specimens he collected and drew, and personal effects such as his embroidered leather coat and trousers, beaded moccasins and bear-claw necklace. And all these artifacts are rather dimly lit, since the Smithsonian could not afford to install the fiber-optic lighting that would protect precious illustrations from fading. But Audubon would have found any tribute to himself insufficient; while he lived, he was as easy to admire for his achievements as he was difficult to like for his aggressive and vainglorious personality...