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KOLYA Child-centered saga wins foreign-film Oscar for Czech director and his screenwriter...
...White House fed out a little more line in the ongoing saga of Webb Hubbell, disclosing that the effort to help Hubbell find work following his resignation from the Justice Department in April 1994 extended up to the President's very door. After acknowledging Tuesday that former chief of staff Mack McLarty and current chief Erskine Bowles made calls and visits on Hubbell's behalf, White House special counsel Lanny Davis added that the President and First Lady "would not have discouraged Mr. McLarty from assisting Webb Hubbell, because he was an old friend," and indeed "may have been generally...
...Shakur's, records bearing his name sold out in stores nationwide; the new CD is expected to be a hot seller. Americans have long been drawn to the symbiosis between criminal life and pop culture--from Frank Sinatra and his alleged mobster pals to the success of the Godfather saga, which is scheduled for an anniversary re-release this week, to the fact that John Gotti's daughter has a new novel out. In the case of gangsta rap, however, the music, though often purchased by suburban whites, is primarily identified with a segment of society, young black males, that...
...original release. On March 21, hundreds of Americans will pour into theaters, eager to give in to the devils seated firmly on their shoulders, ready to re-live Brando's old-world pout and Pacino's charged stare, eager to sink their teeth into the juicy multi-hour saga of men behaving oh-so-badly...
Concern No. two, though, is more fundamental. If the Feds are exonerated from any wrongdoing--they were, after all, dealing with a potential threat--then we must turn our attention to the other actors in this saga: the citizens who reported the terrorist industrial cleaners and called in soap "leads" to the Bureau. In a country that is regularly bemoaned for its diminished civic participation, this mass public action seems strangely incongruous. It is a sad state of affairs when it takes a threat to national security to galvanize the citizenry to action. People don't take the time...