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...Kevin Sack, rolling on the river, finds a revel-in-the-details Gore who "finished his four-day riverboat tour of the Mississippi River with a floating seminar on tax policy." Rather than simply riding the tides of postconvention momentum, he has held a nautical forum on health insurance and given speeches on dry land about the environment and managed care..." And it seems to be going over...
...stereotypes of "good guy" and "bad guy" and on the formulaic nature of film-noir movies in general. Such an idea is ingenious in theory but difficult to pull off in practice, particularly within the confines of musical theater. Essentially, Antonelli's tries so hard to simultaneously revel in and revile its swing-era campiness that it ends up doing neither. Who should we cheer for? Who is fooling whom? The musical plays with the audience a little too much, so confusing them that they become disinterested...
...still charred remnants of the militia's rampage six months ago. Virtually everybody has a tale of torture, rape or murder. But Gusmao has come to them as savior and healer. After 500 years of Portuguese colonization and 24 more of Indonesian occupation, the people of East Timor now revel in one man's promise of freedom from fear...
...these cops, a day's work is all just part of the Puritan work ethic. Officer Rob Reyes attributes the contentedness to the fact that the people who make the HUPD run revel in performing their duties. They fraternize with students and with each other. "The officers here are really supportive," says Divirgilio. "If anyone is going through some sort of personal struggle, it isn't uncommon for the officers to give up his vacation time and sick time so that that person can take a little extra time off. And that's just one example of the way people...
While Dolly's creators revel in their expanding equity, President Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair are preparing to make a rare exception to the principle of science-for-profit: the U.S. and British governments will make the results of the Human Genome Project available to the public and, more important, to the scientific community. A statement to be released Tuesday urges all researchers in the program to share their data in the interests of promoting humanity's ability to fight disease. With the latest $448 million the White House has asked Congress to approve for the project...