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...Pill, fashion designer I'd start with freshly squeezed orange juice and great coffee with some friends on the terrace at Gaudron, tel: (32-2) 343 9790. Then I would go to the city center and walk through the beautiful stores on the Rue Antoine Dansaert. It's fashion-slave heaven, with boutiques crammed into every available space. I would definitely go to Stijl at No. 74, tel: (32-2) 512 0313. This is the mecca of contemporary Belgian haute couture. I'd also visit Icon, tel: (32-2) 502 7151, to see their new trends. Later, for dinner...
...want to change history. We want to add to it.' JOSEPH ALMEIDA, a Rhode Island state representative, on a referendum to cut the second part of the state's official name--Rhode Island and Providence Plantations--which calls to mind the colony's role in the slave trade...
...would love to do one on Harriet Tubman. I think maybe one day a slave epic. Apart from Roots, which was on television, I don't think there's been a serious film dealing with slavery in this country. It would need alternative means of finance. It's not something that you could get made through the traditional Hollywood system...
...voice of Kevin Spacey. Like Socrates or a rabbi or a shrink, Gerty annoyingly answers questions with questions. (Sam, agitated: "Am I a f---in' clone?" Gerty, trying to deflect the issue: "Are you hungry?") Unlike HAL-9000 from the Kubrick movie, however, this computer is not totally the slave of his programmers. Sometimes it will aid Sam as he rises from impotence into insurrection...
...College Park, MD, in a modern building of some 2 million cubic feet that can manage nearly 400 researchers at once. An electronic archive is in the works. Among the documents open for perusal by anyone aged 14 and up are military records, naturalization records for generations of immigrants, slave ship manifests and the Emancipation Proclamation, the Japanese surrender documents from World War II-even the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, emblazoned with the signature "Bonaparte." Some of the holdings have recently been hauled out as political ammo: Hillary Clinton's First Lady schedules, for instance...