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...despite a stellar cast of panelists--including Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Apple Computer CEO John Sculley, former Sen. TimothyE. Wirth '61 (D-Colo.) and Jessica TuchmanMathews, vice-president of World ResourcesInst.--the event was less a pep rally for what isto come and more a somber reminder of difficulttasks ahead...
This should be a somber time for Muslim fundamentalists in the Israeli- occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Over the past three weeks, Israel has deported 415 alleged Islamic activists to Lebanon and jailed 1,000 others; dozens more have been shot in clashes with the army. But far from despairing, adherents of the fundamentalist movement are jubilant. "The Israelis," says a member of Hamas, the main fundamentalist organization, "have done us a big favor. We are the winners in all of this...
WHICH MOVIE DESERVES AN NC-17 "ADULTS ONLY" rating: A) the escapades of an oversexed ice-pick murderer or B) a somber study of upper-class Britons? If you picked B, you too can work for the Motion Picture Association of America. The MPAA forced French director Louis Malle (Atlantic City) to re-edit a love scene in Damage, which opened last week, before receiving the same "R" given the gore and genitalia of Basic Instinct. Malle had no choice -- many theaters won't show NC-17 movies. "In no way was the scene pornographic," he insisted. "In Europe...
Harvard Captain Tyler Rullman tallied a personal-best 30 points last night, but offered only this somber assessment of the game: "We just broke down in the second half. We seemed to lose a lot of our intensity and our drive as the game wore on. We'll definitely have to address that problem as the season goes...
...lonely at the top, and really depressing too. At least that's the inescapable impression conveyed by Automatic for the People, R.E.M.'s follow- up to its 1991 critical and commercial smash, Out of Time. The record gets off to a somber start with Drive, a dirgelike number featuring lyricist and lead singer Michael Stipe, and continues its downward spiral with a string of songs that meander into a morass of hopelessness, anger and loss...