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...angle has probably hurt more than it has helped. Critics were generally cool to a show that wore its feminist agenda on its sleeve, and a lot of potential male viewers were probably scared off as well. Ratings have been mediocre, and prospects for the show (halfway through a six-week summer run) are dicey. Which is sad, because She TV is not just a gender-bending gimmick; it really is a breakthrough...
Miller's show, which is in the midst of a six-week run on HBO (and will return later this year), has had a few rocky moments but many more stimulating ones. He opens each half-hour with quips about the week's news, then brings on a guest to discuss a specially chosen topic: Senator Bill Bradley on crime, say. As in his short-lived 1992 talk show, Miller brings more to interviews than just his cue cards. "I admire you as a politician," he told Bradley, "for the same reason I admired you in the N.B.A.: you seem...
...March 3, 1991, under a hastily pitched tent at Safwan air base in southern Iraq, General Norman Schwarzkopf gazed across the table at two grim-faced Iraqi generals and calmly dictated cease-fire terms that put an end to the six-week Gulf War. Stunned to learn that the U.S.-led forces had captured more than 60,000 of his soldiers, Iraqi Lieut. General Sultan Hashim Ahmad al- Jabbari acceded to each and every condition. "His face went completely pale," Schwarzkopf later recounted. "He had had no concept of the magnitude of their defeat...
...women are more demonstrative and vocal about their anxieties. Men, who may be just as nervous, are culturally conditioned to hide it. "Fearfulness knows no gender," says Gellert. Experts disagree about the probable duration of the stress. Gellert points to a classic formulation in mass psychology known as the "six-week model of crisis resolution," and he predicts that, depending on how long the aftershocks continue -- there were five more of up to 3.4 magnitude last week -- many people are due to return to normal this month. Daniel Weiss, professor of medical psychology at the University of California, San Francisco...
During his six-week sojourn in Thailand last summer, Roy Prieb '95 received a marriage proposition. "I was walking along the main street in Nan, which is a small close-knit village in southern Thailand, when I met these two old ladies, who started chatting with me," says Prieb, who speaks Thai fluently. "Next thing I know, they try to set me up with their granddaughters...