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...Finance chairman, he spends his days preparing for the pivotal role he will play in the forthcoming debates over Medicare and welfare reform. During his spare time in his Senate office, he leafs through a worn hardcover copy of the play A Man for All Seasons. His favorite part? Sir Thomas More cautioning his son-in-law to follow the law rather than his own moral certitude. The lesson, Packwood says, is "be wary of people who are convinced they are right." There are Senators who would say the same of Packwood...
...little doubt that humans, one way or the other, are headed back to the bottom of the sea. The rewards of exploring the coldest, darkest waters--scientific, economic and psychological--are just too great to pass up. Ultimately, people will go to the abyss for the same reason Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Everest: because it's there...
However, Gere's portrayal does flesh out the character of Sir Lancelot. This is not an easy task, since traditional Lancelots tend toward a dull, self assured stock hero, with a limited range of emotion. Gere's Lancelot does convince the audience that he really could rival Arthur for the Queen's affections. He may not have the commanding voice and imposing presence of Connery's Arthur, but he risks life and limb for Guinevere on several occasions, and isn't afraid to grunt and sweat while doing...
Arthur's knightly entourage is not the same as Arthur fans may remember, either. Agravaine is the only familiar name Connery's Arthur speaks. And while Sirs Gawain and Gareth are in the film's credits, they are unidentified during the movie, and Sir Lamorack, Sir Bors and Sir Pellinore are absent from this retelling...
DIED. ERNEST T.S. WALTON, 91, Nobel laureate who, with car batteries, bicycle parts, cookie tins, glass tubing and partner Sir John Cockcroft, became the first scientist to split an atom, proving that E did indeed equal mc2 and ushering in the hope and terror of the nuclear age; in Belfast...