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Whatever hopes the West has for reform in Russia, it will have to remember that the rise of a popular democracy there is an even higher goal. If the great majority of Russians are ready to vote against reform in June, as they did last December, the rest of the world will have to live with it. The economy of Russia belongs to its worker-citizens. They have the right to prolong the agony of their emergence from socialism if that is their collective wish...
Proponents of the Boxer bill say complicated enforcement procedures and the potential for corruption under the Stevens bill will mean that dolphin deaths will rise again. Proponents of the Stevens bill argue that the alternatives to encircling dolphins have proved destructive to both tuna populations and other species, such as sea turtles and sharks. All that leaves Anthony O'Reilly, chairman of H.J. Heinz Co., which owns StarKist, loath to make any change that might be misinterpreted by dolphin-loving consumers. "I believe the definition should not be changed in the absence of consensus of scientists and public opinion...
Very loosely based on the rise of news reader Jessica Savitch, the script by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne sends Sally Atwater (Pfeiffer)--all elbows and naked ambition--into a Miami TV newsroom presided over by Warren Justice (Redford), who ankled the network scene because he was too darned independent. Sally, later called Tally, is raw but cunning and learns quickly; best of all, in the tyranny of telegenics, "she eats the lens." Soon she has the coolest gig in journalism: asking hard questions of politicians by day, having Robert Redford massage her feet at night...
...Spot's popularity quickly gave rise to more than a dozen other cybersoap clones. Now the modem ready can revel in series such as Lake Shore Drive, which chronicles yuppie intrigue in Chicago, and Ferndale, a saga about patients in a psychoanalytic clinic, one of whom is a man hoping to become a lesbian...
...power gathering. We might not have gone so squishy if Hillary Clinton had shown up. As it was, the highest-ranking woman may have been Sally Quinn, Clinton's oft-quoted critic in the New Yorker article on the First Lady. Emcee Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who encouraged women to rise and bear witness to their troubles, broke the spell of sisterhood when she pointedly called on Quinn to explain why women participate in the trashing of Hillary. Quinn, stunned, gamely allowed as how Hillary may have finally found her niche pursuing children's issues...