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...terrorist from checking a bomb and then skipping the flight by matching every bag to its owner: "The airlines have prevailed on this commission not to go to full luggage match because they don't want to pay for it." Maybe so, but passengers are also likely to rebel when such a system produces even more delays, long lines and requirements for early airport arrivals. While the Presidential panel noted that U.S. Customs, using its own profiling system, has been able to increase drug seizures while stopping fewer people, the analogy is not perfect. After all, taking a flight from...
...long-time advocate of pre-registration for classes, at the beginning of each semester I try to rebel against shopping period as much as possible. I pick out my four classes in advance, attend them, and usually find that I have picked right. Occasionally, a day or two into shopping period, I hear about another course that everyone likes and substitute it for one of my earlier choices. Long before study card day, though, I am ready for the semester, books in hand and sections finalized. I occasionally envy my peers who discover great new classes while shopping, but tell...
...with starsurfer Luke and antihero Han Solo and all the pudgy, pasty-faced rebel pilots finally functioning as a team, Star Wars has declared its intention: to be a celebration of communal subversiveness. The Jedi Force is itself a kind of cosmic team spirit. So it's appropriate that the movie come back into theaters to give kids of all ages the communal kick of a big-screen experience. Some early viewers have applauded the new material; others (the true believers) have booed it. But all cheer when the Millennium Falcon zaps into hyperspace; it is a video game...
Lucas' craftsmanship shines with particular brilliance in the final half hour of the film. Besides the stunning special effects that the director calls upon to underscore the urgency of this concluding sequence, Lucas masterfully builds up the suspense to a shattering pitch as one rebel craft after another falls prey to the marauding pilots of the imperial forces. The toll of casualties among the rebels keeps adding up until one lone plane remains; naturally, it is manned by Luke Skywalker (Hamill), the naive twenty-year-old enraptured by Princess Leia's beauty who seeks to avenge the death...
LIMA, Peru: Peru's seven-week hostage crisis moved closer to resolution after a three-hour meeting between mediators and Tupac Amaru rebels to set the agenda for negotiations with government representatives. Emerging from the Japanese ambassador's residence early Thursday afternoon, Roman Catholic Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani said that "we are headed toward finding the light of a peaceful solution." Cipriani did not say whether a definite date for talks had been set, but noted that efforts to free the 72 remaining hostages had "advanced positively." President Alberto Fujimori had welcomed the meeting, saying that it "will help...