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Buying a book also allows the studio to sidestep all that messy artistic independence; the writer and the director have a blueprint they'd better stick to. "Studios don't like to take chances with something that hasn't been validated in another commercial form," says screenwriter-director Paul Schrader, whose sleek, sere new movie, The Comfort of Strangers, was adapted by Harold Pinter from Ian McEwan's novel. "A film like Silence of the Lambs would have never hit the screen had it been original material. It's just too raw. It could be filmed only because...
GATOR BOMBS. A version of cluster bombs, they explode in midair, scattering small, hard-to-detect mines over a region as large as 90,000 sq. yds. Under normal conditions, a soldier might be able to sidestep these explosives, but in the heat of battle, there is a tendency to leap without looking. The gator bomb thus can create panic among the enemy...
...response reeks of uncertainty...no...apathy about his decision--it seems as though he would be lofting long drives over center field fences instead of lofting 75-yard TD passes if it were baseball season when he had to make the decision. But he is quick to sidestep any questions about whether he will join fellow football star and cross trainer Bo Jackson in training camp next month...
Even if he and higher courts sidestep the problem, Congress can stay the President's hand by exercising another power found in Article I, Section 8: refusing to fund the war, as Congress eventually did in Vietnam. But the ultimate check on White House adventurism may be the one noted by the late American historian Clinton Rossiter: "The people with their overt or silent resistance, not the court with its power of judicial review, will set the only practical limits to arrogance of abuse...
After all, Souter could--and probably will--sidestep any specific questions merely by saying he needs to see the actual case, or by claiming that he has not really considered such issues at length. The voters have accepted that answer in past confirmation hearings, and the Senate would only look foolish by pressing the issue. What more could Bush...