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...around the stretch they come, baring their teeth and shaking their fists and raising their arms and smiling. George W. Bush and Al Gore, the two imperfect major-party candidates for president. Two weeks to go, and the thing is so close its shape is barely perceptible...
...tortured relationship between Israelis and Palestinians was not the only thing at stake. While there remained a sound logic against a new, widespread Middle East war--namely that the Arab armies are in no shape to take on Israel's--the furious race of developments left regional leaders with a creepy hint of that possibility, especially after a new front opened up when Hizballah militiamen in Lebanon breached the border to kidnap three soldiers from Israel. Barak holds Syria, the real power in Lebanon, responsible and said in an interview with TIME that Israelis would "keep for ourselves the right...
...Sports/Science, a small Dallas-based company that began selling stress-relieving sound machines in 1993, is embracing that philosophy wholeheartedly. In addition to its Texas-shape fountain, complete with oil well, the company has trademarked a line of whimsical frog fountains, and is developing one with giggling piglets. "It gets more absurd as we go along," admits president Suzanne Harper. Coming soon: a gargling Billy Bass...
That's not true. They deliberately tried to shape themselves as the underdog, when in fact they are deliberately launching these attacks in order to draw attention through the pictures, the shocking pictures. We were shocked not just by the pictures of our soldiers lynched by the mob but also by pictures of the young Palestinian who lost his life when he was caught in crossfire. But, as leaders, we should see through the screens and ask ourselves who is responsible for it, how it happened, who initiated it, for what purpose. What the hell kind of purpose could...
...successful films later, she has returned this year to her former standing as an actress. Earlier this year she dared to bare all on the London stage in The Graduate and was lavishly praised for her acting form, as well as for her physical form, apparently still in fine shape at age 45. Turner also appeared in The Virgin Suicides, a Sofia Coppola film, as the mother of five suicidal daughters. This fall Turner can be seen at the Colonial Theatre in Boston in Tallulah, based on the life of one Tallulah Bankhead, an actress from the '30s whose list...