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...protest are already under way. In Massachusetts last week, many obstetricians were refusing new patients in a fight against rising insurance rates. In Georgia, where insurers have requested rate increases averaging 38%, 1,500 doctors marched on Atlanta two weeks ago to shout support for a legislative effort to restrain malpractice lawsuits. Some just say it with a bumper sticker: LET THE LAWYERS DELIVER THE BABIES...
...creation of a work that realizes cinema's unique capacity for the sweeping epic gesture. The problem in realizing what may be the movie's ideal form is to keep one's balance. Reach too far in one direction, and all you do is bring on the empty horses. Restrain the impulse, and you may only bring forth empty images, beautiful and static. It is on the ground that lies between melodrama and abstraction that the most haunting figures in film history--Griffith, Eisenstein and Abel Gance among them--have both lost themselves and found themselves. It is this terrain...
...hiding or did not board the ship at all." By then, U.S. patience was beginning to wear thin. At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Shultz called on Cairo to "hold these people and prosecute them." Privately, U.S. officials could hardly restrain themselves. Said an intelligence analyst: "They just lied to us, from top to bottom. They did everything they could in order to mislead us about the location and fate of the terrorists." But thanks to effective intelligence in Egypt, the White House knew by Thursday morning that the hijackers still had not left...
...plant apple trees. He will later enter American legend under the name Johnny Appleseed, but for now he serves as a useful emissary between the whites and the nearby encampment of Delaware Indians. The local chief has made a treaty of peace, but he may not be able to restrain his warriors. It is 1812, the British are massing on the Canadian border, and the Shawnee chief Tecumseh has called for all Indians to arise against the settlers. Trapped by this turmoil is Lettiece Shipman, a freed slave from Kentucky who had hoped to go to Canada. In the meantime...
...hijacking?" asked the Wall Street Journal. "We should give him the incentive to do so" -- by bombing Syrian military targets. Nonetheless, the degree of control exercised by Iran and Syria is a matter of dispute in intelligence circles. Some experts feel that both countries have lately sought to restrain Shi'ite fanatics. This impression is reinforced by Assad's apparent cooperation last week and Iran's refusal to support the TWA hijackers, much less allow them to land in Tehran...