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...Shakespeare artfully conveyed the drama of the paradigm, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought it to life in the character of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes's paradigms were broad, deep, convincing. They forged fiction into reality for thousands of believers who will tell you that the great sleuth lives on at 223B Baker Street, puffing on his paradigms. Why not? It only goes to show that one person's paradigm is another's world...
...Hill, fans have found a player with old-school grace, a guy who is organizing a summer camp for kids and calls assistant coaches Sir. Says Pistons guard Joe Dumars, a mentor of Hill's: "It's a league of guys who are out of control. Fringe behavior is being recognized and accepted, sometimes even rewarded. It's probably not a healthy comment that Grant is being recognized for just being a good person, but it's time we get back to that." Pistons coach Don Chaney agrees: "Grant is headed for stardom. You can't talk...
...November to mid-December, NET fielded 56,000 on-air viewer phone calls, up 18,000 from the month before. These days, few call The Progress Report without profusely congratulating its host. "What a thrill, what a thrill to speak to Newt Gingrich," said one caller. "I salute you, ) sir." Fear not that Network Newt will be lost in a 500-channel universe...
Violations against the tenuous cease-fire negotiated by ex-President Jimmy Carter are serious enough to justify a special trip by Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Rose -- the top U.N. commander in the area -- to northwest Bosnia. Rose announced that he would fly to the Bihac region -- the site of the most serious cease-fire violations -- tomorrow in an effort to save the truce. Rose's mission: Rein in the Croatian Serbs, who haven't signed on to Carter's truce. Under the agreement, which took effect Saturday, the government and the Bosnian Serbs agreed to a one-week cease-fire...
...just gets inane and silly. The conversion of Despard and Margaret from the morally loose characters of the first act to puritanical ministers of charity in the second is arbitrary and unconvincing. The conclusion of the drama, with the resurrection of Ruthven's suicidal forbear Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, seems a morbid solution to the flighty plot...