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Their business now is the boss's statuary: what will last once the presidency officially ends. Clinton began his ostentatious search for a legacy soon after he became the first Democrat in 32 years to be re-elected, and that was before a year of sex scandal following a year of campaign-finance scandal raised the risk that the echo of his presidency might sound like a dirty joke. He was lucky and unlucky to have been elected at just 46; with his youth comes the reality that he will actually have to live with his legacy, which...
There's not much dispute that children who surf the Web these days can gain access to smut. When a child types the words dollhouse or toys into a typical search engine, the court noted, some of the links retrieved are porn sites. Trouble is, the new law is so broad it would let prosecutors go after socially useful, nonpornographic websites aimed at adults. A site operator who testified that he fears prosecution runs the Sexual Health Network, which provides information about sexuality to the disabled. And the credit-card and age-verification defenses go only so far. Both...
Stability, prestige and peace for Jordan were Hussein's great achievements. But ever in search of a broader Middle East peace, last October he gamely left his hospital bed in Minnesota's Mayo Clinic to help break a deadlock in U.S.-sponsored negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. "If I had an ounce of strength," the dying King explained, "I would have done my utmost to be there, and to help in any way I can." For that perseverance in the name of peace--and for a lifetime of courage and moderation in a part of the world so lacking...
...Room (also at the A.R.T. in 1986), has taken a few minor liberties from the published script which pay off well. Complementing Eigsti's set design, lighting designer John Ambrosone and sound designer Christopher Walker have made a special effort to bring the audience into the production: spotlights search faces and the roaring sound of wind disorients the audience. Simple passivity is difficult for the viewer...
...know just as little as they do about who we are and what the hell we're doing here. Drugs, money and sex do nothing to resolve that incessant questioning--still we stick ourselves with needles, cover ourselves with expensive clothes and exhaust ourselves in bed after bed in search for the fulfillment that just has to be somewhere...