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...hear its critics talk, W.R. Grace & Co., based in Boca Raton, Florida, is nothing less than a den of international pirates. Its crime: patenting a pesticide made from seeds of the Indian neem tree. "Genetic colonialism," thunders the self-proclaimed scientific watchdog Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, who is leading a coalition of 200 scientific, academic and farm organizations from 37 countries that filed a petition last week to have the patent revoked. Not only is Grace's pesticide based on an ancient and widely known extraction process, the coalition claims, but it will force Indian...
...Lampoon's "extra" went beyond poor taste. They should realize what the rest of the nation already knows: there is nothing funny about the Oklahoma City bombing. Scott Rifkin...
...Irving) is crippled with obsession over Hitler's mistreatment of Jews. He (Ron Rifkin) is a raging, gelded bull. And Arthur Miller, in a scalding play that brought him back to Broadway 50 years after his debut, is still pursuing his theme: that connecting with other people is at once our most destructive and redemptive condition. Brilliant, remorseless drama...
...Joel Rifkin, a landscape gardener from Long Island, New York, who has admitted killing 17 women, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Tiffany Bresciani -- the first of the slayings to come to trial. Rifkin's insanity plea was rejected...
...Wasps banker husband? Is it somehow tied to her Cassandra-like obsession with Hitler's assault on German Jews, a threat in which no one around her sees urgency? Or is her disability a plea for attention? Meditating on these dilemmas are Sylvia (Amy Irving), her volatile husband (Ron Rifkin) and a doctor (David Dukes), who, without training, tries to psychoanalyze her, but begins to seduce her instead...