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...biggest firewall to sterilize the Internet for its people makes many in Hong Kong worry about how long they can expect to live outside it. Already, Chinese Internet users must register themselves and their modems with the Public Security Bureau. Internet service providers are held accountable if problematic pages seep through, and e-mail is sniffed as thoroughly as snail mail has been scoured since 1949. While a hardline approach may work for now in China, though, Beijing's leaders may find that building an electronic great wall around Hong Kong will be an impossible feat. The virtual medium looks...
...world, few could see them in the back row. Yet as his retrospective proves, he has consistently engaged, and sometimes foreseen, the same theoretical issues and artistic strategies of his better-known international counterparts. His installations of room corners, whose walls and base boards seem to seep into the floors, play with spatial perception in a way similar to the work of German artist Blinky Palermo. Mysteriously prescient, his stamped "Insertion" slogans even anticipate Jenny Holzer's "Truisms," which would begin to appear on envelopes and T-shirts nearly 10 years after Meireles' last Coke bottle was recycled. Finally...
...sere demands of Stephen Sondheim's songs. Here again she does a tough score proud. Lacking the vocal vigor of Elaine Paige's West End Evita, Madonna plays Evita with a poignant weariness, as if death has shrouded her from infancy. And dressed in sumptuous gowns or feeling life seep away, she has more than just a little bit of star quality. Just before Eva's death, she sings the film's one new tune, which sounds eerily like an act of faith: You Must Love Me. But love or hate Madonna-Eva, she is a magnet for all eyes...
...outlets like the New York Times and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer cover the budget battles in Washington and the strife in Bosnia, more mass-audience-friendly publications and TV shows dig for details on Liz Taylor's health and Princess Di's divorce. Each time these tabloid stories seep into the "serious" press, it sparks another round of hand-wringing debate over whether news is what people "want" or what they "need." Many editors were privately dismayed at the massive amount of attention paid last year to the O.J. Simpson murder trial, an event of marginal news significance. Still...
...that reason, I was appalled to read in Mark Thompson's story "The Gulf War Poisons Seep Out" that U.S. Army Engineers "blew up" nerve-gas-weapons depots in Iraq in 1991. Who made the decision to risk blowing up the chemical and biological ammunition in situ? Was the risk factor properly appraised, not only with regard to allied troops temporarily present in the vicinity of the destruction site but also with regard to the Iraqi civilian population? If "blowing up" is a correct description of what happened, and if even minute quantities of nerve gas can be a severe...