Word: seems
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...sometimes we need to find motive to calm us down. Then hate-crime laws, for all their inconsistencies, seem to be the only resort. As night fell at the vigil for Matthew Shepard outside the Capitol last Wednesday, the stony resistance of many Republicans to federal hate-crime legislation melted amid rosy predictions it would be revived, and passed, when Congress resumes in January...
...episode, discover they are witches. The series, which has drawn surprisingly good ratings, manages to tap into TV's current fascination with the occult (The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) while recalling the classic three-babe structure of Spelling's '70s hit Charlie's Angels. Here, Doherty would seem to fit into the Jaclyn Smith mold--easily the most beautiful one but not necessarily the sexiest. (Alyssa Milano gets the Farrah Fawcett-Majors pinup part, while Holly Marie Combs is stuck with Kate Jackson...
China's most daring highflyer, Premier Zhu Rongji, has come very close. He likes the altitude--it energizes him--and over the past five years he has seemed to defy gravity as he pushed his country's economic reforms further and faster than anyone thought possible. To his many admirers at home and overseas, he was the enlightened mandarin who single-handedly could break through the red tape and propel China's economy into the next century. Even Asia's debilitating economic crisis didn't seem to faze Zhu. In March he laid out a program for China to make...
There has been no open criticism of the man known simply as "the Boss." Yet sometimes silence is more ominous. At a meeting of the Communist Party leadership last week in Beijing, the official topic for discussion was improving farmers' welfare. (The issue may seem mundane, but China has 800 million citizens living on farms, so agricultural reform remains essential.) The issue of preventing state industry and the entire banking system from disappearing into a black hole was not mentioned in the final communique, but Zhu's once ambitious plans are still the subject of a fierce backroom debate. Everyone...
...might seem to be show biz--all the more because the speaker is Rob Reiner, the onetime regular on All in the Family and now a renowned movie director. But the speech, before the American Heart Association, is only tangentially about Reiner's childhood. More directly, he is imploring his listeners to help get out the vote for Proposition 10, a California ballot initiative that would tax tobacco to fund programs for preschoolers. "Politicians like to say children are the future," Reiner says, "but what have they done for them? Everyone knows that the first three years of life...