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Well, it works. This isn't the best Shakespeare on film -- a photo finish between Olivier's Richard III and Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight -- but it may be the best movie Shakespeare. The skirmish of will and wit between Benedick (Branagh, never so charming a screen presence) and Beatrice (his wife Emma Thompson, here tart and intense) plays like a prime episode of Cheers. The characters' passions seem not revived but experienced afresh. There is wrenching melodrama in the perfidy that estranges the innocent lovers Hero (Kate Beckinsale) and Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard, a wonderfully vulnerable puppy-lover...
...result when ill-prepared lawyers are thrown in over their heads. In 1983 a man named Victor Roberts and an accomplice stole a car and drove to an Atlanta suburb hunting for a house to burglarize. Posing as insurance salesmen, they entered the home of Mary Jo Jenkins. A skirmish ensued and a gun went off, shooting Jenkins through the heart. H. Geoffrey Slade, a lawyer for 13 years, was assigned to handle the capital case. When he realized he was in over his head and requested co-counsel, the court appointed Jim Hamilton, 75, who had almost no criminal...
...problems awaiting anyone brave enough to confront them are enormous. The number of AIDS cases in the city has exploded, while the number of welfare recipients has also steadily increased. The war on drugs has turned out to be little more than a skirmish awarding drug dealers the decided victory. In a city where the policemen must use pistols to fend against semi-automatic machine guns, it's small wonder that crime has steadily risen. In fact, New York currently leads the nation in number of policeman shot this year...
...expressed misgivings; France, though it participated in some bombing, criticized the missile attack. Paris seemed wary of antagonizing its allies in the Arab world, and Moscow appeared to be afraid of Russian nationalists who deplore any kowtowing to the U.S.; those concerns could inhibit future action. As the Saturday skirmish proved, Saddam can provoke a crisis anytime he wants to make another try at weakening the restraints imposed on him after the Gulf War. Maintaining those restraints and the alliance, and if possible regaining the initiative, are among Clinton's most exasperating tests. (See related story on page...
Number of women who have played a game in a major league team sport. For one period of a preseason skirmish, Manon Rheaume, 20, was in goal for the N.H.L.'s Tampa Bay Lightning, and her bosses say she has a chance to make the team. Can her achievement be a harbinger of gender integration? We bet there's a Little League tomboy phenom who could play shortstop for the Yankees someday. (And soon, please!) We also bet Oprah Winfrey could take George Foreman...