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...truth, my strongest summer flings were established with my favorite novels. As for many other girls, the beautiful story of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy became idealized in my teenage heart. Emma became my heroine and Tess of the D’Urbervilles died along with my summer innocence. In my later teen years, a tiny part of me might have fallen for a young, autobiographical Bill Clinton...
...Archbishop of Manila ... [He] has diplomatic gifts that have been invaluable tools in guiding church policy ... When Marcos called for early presidential elections last year, the church was ready. The groundwork for selecting opposition candidates ... had been worked out by the so-called Jesuit Mafia ... [which] concluded that the strongest possible opposition candidate was Benigno Aquino's widow, Corazon. During the precampaign maneuvering, Cardinal Sin met several times with Aquino ... THE PRIMATE REASSURED AQUINO THAT SHE COULD SUCCESSFULLY CHALLENGE MARCOS ... Sin tactfully refrained from endorsing the ticket in public, but there was no doubt about which candidate the church backed...
...Constitutional Court. If the election does take place, conventional wisdom is that Schröder will lose. A poll by Election Research Group confirmed that the new leftist alliance - Linkspartei.pds, a coalition of disgruntled left-wingers and eastern German reformed communists - is polling 12% nationally. It's also the strongest party in the east, at 34%. The conservative cdu and its sister party, the csu, are running at 44% nationally, compared to 24% for the ruling spd. If the cdu does win, the strength of Linkspartei.pds in the east could make the party's majority so slim that...
...totality is an amazingly vigorous achievement - and not just for an old man. (Only the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who at 96 has completed 10 feature films in the past decade, has outlasted Bergman.) Saraband is a film worthy of being counted among Bergman's strongest. Which means among the finest there are, or are likely to be, for a while...
Because Loews has its strongest presence in major cities, while AMC's theaters are spread more widely around the country, the new deal is expected to help AMC Entertainment reach a broader audience and negotiate better deals for popcorn and soda. But some are dubious of the synergy. Several big theater conglomerates have battled bankruptcy, and General Cinema filed for Chapter 11 in 2000. "Is there a merger that's worked out right in Hollywood in the past 20 years?" asks industry expert Arthur de Vany, author of Hollywood Economics. "I can't think of one." --By Jeremy Caplan