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...been winning awards and high popularity in Europe. Benigni won't--can't--have it any other way, for even a hint of the truth about the Holocaust would crush his comedy and reduce to absurdity his "fable" about a man named Guido making a sort of hide-and-seek game out of camp life, diverting his four-year-old son (Giorgio Cantarini) from its harshness and encouraging him to lie low. The idea, of course, is to save the boy from the gas chamber, where the young, the old and the sickly--all those who can't work...
...Freud exhibition at the Library of Congress [AMERICAN SCENE, Oct. 12], you suggested that the exhibit was postponed three years ago because of protests. As in some other cases, the library was forced to postpone solely because it had not then been able to raise the funds we always seek from private sources for exhibits. Despite inaccurate media reports, there was never any doubt the Freud show would take place. The library welcomes responsible controversy about the many exhibits it mounts of its rich and varied materials. JAMES H. BILLINGTON, Librarian Library of Congress Washington...
Unless we are saved by the Tom Harkin Rule. In 1992 Iowa Senator Tom Harkin decided to seek the presidency; his fellow Democrats left the Hawkeye State to the native Hawkeye. While that left Iowa's hoteliers and restaurateurs in despair, it liberated a few thousand of us from the joys of standing ankle-deep in frozen mud while a candidate talked to four shivering Iowans, seven cows and 35 camera crews...
EMANCIPATED. DOMINIQUE MOCEANU, 17, Olympic gold-medal gymnast; by a Texas state judge; in Houston. The 1996 champion was declared a legal adult in a settlement with her parents, whom she accused of squandering her earnings. The decision lets her seek a past accounting and make her own future deals...
...everyone who is reading this to understand that it took me time and education to come to acceptance. I ask you to be open-minded. I invite you to educate yourself on gay and lesbian issues; seek out PFLAG or another organization...