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...application with a full comprehension of its ramifications. Legal analysts watching the case agree that this judge's acceptance of the family's claim that Elian is intellectually capable of understanding what it means to apply for asylum stretches the boundaries of credulity. The judge is not expected to render his decision until next week, says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett, but even when the ruling comes down, this story will be far from over, given the fierce emotion sparked by Elian's case. "Both sides will appeal any decision that's made against them," says Padgett...
...decommissioning issue, however, has hovered constantly over even the most encouraging signs. How--and why--would the I.R.A. agree to give up its arms? The 1998 Good Friday agreement requires paramilitaries to hand over or render useless their weapons by May. But the mood in the air, and on the graffitied walls of Belfast, suggests that the I.R.A.'s hard men still see the destruction of their arms as a humiliation, not a gesture of peace. And though Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has not abandoned the May deadline, the I.R.A. will need to destroy a few weapons before London...
...Landmark Pictures" is an admirable look at two fascinating urban imagists--and the mundane places they render true landmarks of the imagination...
...beginning to be created there. We can already begin to see what the generation born with a TV remote in its hand, hip-hop on the CD player and a computer screen in its face will do to traditional narrative. They'll speed it up, scramble it--and render it in new tonalities, using new palettes. You can see it in the way Pulp Fiction or Run Lola Run toys with time, in the down-the-rabbit-hole goofing of Being John Malkovich, in Keanu Reeves' encounter with that manic bullet in The Matrix. It's a kind of back...
...Paul Gray's review of historian Susan Dunn's Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light [BOOKS, Dec. 6]: as a Frenchman living in the U.S., I have had the opportunity to reflect on the respective merits and shortcomings of the two countries' revolutions. Dunn does not render sufficient justice to the particular challenges of the French Revolution. While the Reign of Terror was a sad phase in French history, it would probably have been difficult to avoid. The lessons drawn about the later emergence of Napoleon can also be considered from two perspectives: while some consider it an end point...