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WASHINGTON: Is history supposed to be this boring? Four House managers have had their turn in front of the Senate jury, and there's been nary a revelation in sight -- where were the "nuggets" that James Sensenbrenner promised us? Where, even, was the "cheap mystery" that the White House scorned? Only hours into the case against the President, the networks were switching back to soaps and prosecutors had a dilemma: convincing the jury that they need to hear more of the same. "It's kind of a Rodney King tape problem," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "This drama...
...could tell over some egg rolls and a plate of chicken-fried rice--with Asians and fellow Jews. I'm guessing from the icicles on my nose that it was damn cold outside, so the crooked sign hanging in the window, "Yenching--Open Until 11," was a most welcome sight. And in the warmth of the restaurant, drinking hot tea and reading the New York Times in the company of others for whom Jesus's birthday is simply another occasion to go to the movies, I knew that staying in Cambridge over the break had been the right decision...
...shabby but nothing worse. People talk about how little they slept, but they show no other outward signs of stress. This is a curiously surreal war that starts on schedule after dark and stops before dawn, its most intense drama and damage so far taking place mostly out of sight...
...Brien, the pioneering special-effects genius, went back to his drawing board in the 1940s, he gave Mighty Joe Young two things King Kong, his first and greatest ape, lacked: a user-friendly name and a lady friend who didn't burst into screams every time she caught sight of him. The result didn't quite match King Kong, arguably the movies' most intense portrayal of unrequited love, but it remains a sweet memory, now happily recalled by director Ron Underwood's genial remake...
...city." But every true Londoner thinks his city "more fair," with a "mighty heart," as did the poet Wordsworth when he crossed Westminster Bridge one morning in the 19th century. Seeing "ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples, all bright and glittering in the smokeless air," he thought it "a sight touching in its majesty." Londoners are so friendly, with a great sense of humor. They didn't get that way by living in an ugly and vandalized city. London has always been fascinating, colorful, worldly, broad-minded and throbbing with life. DEE WHITE Georgetown...