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...morning, as the assault began, reporters asked Clinton if he knew what was happening. In fact, Clinton had been briefed periodically on the progress in Waco from the start, by Reno's predecessor Stuart Gerson and by her deputy Webster Hubbell, a close friend of the Clintons'. "I was aware of it," he said. "I think the Attorney General made the decision." Pushed further, he added, "I knew it was going to be done, but the decisions were entirely theirs...
...DIRECTOR CALLS THE SHOTS; THE cinematographer shows you the light. In VISIONS OF LIGHT, a superb documentary by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy and Stuart Samuels, directors of photography are revealed as painters on film, Rembrandts with an Arriflex. The movie blends clips from Hollywood's wondrous black-and-white era with reflections by such modern masters as Michael Chapman ("A cinematographer's job is to tell people where to look"), Allen Daviau ("What's important are the lights that you don't turn on") and Conrad Hall ("There's a language far more complex than words"). If only the vast...
After a brief and hopeful interlude, Americans seem to have contracted a fresh case of the jitters. "I was walking through the mall the other day, and I thought, Hey, I can buy all these things again," says Stuart Schwartz, a Los Angeles department-store clerk who recently spent two months on the unemployment rolls. "But then I thought, No, I'd rather hang on to the money...
...quote John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race....If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: If wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error...
...presentment," a proceeding similar to arraignment. The White House had been closely watching the case, and George Stephanopoulos, President Clinton's communications director, had taken the unusual step of confirming that an arrest had been made. He also promised that FBI director William Sessions and acting Attorney General Stuart Gerson would have something to say about the case at a Thursday afternoon news conference. In fact, they annoyed reporters by insisting that they could not make any comment pending the court appearance that night, which only heightened the drama...