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Like a Band-Aid being slowly, painfully pulled from a hair-covered forearm, tobacco companies in the past few years have faced a steady succession of product liability cases. Now a federal judge wants to pull the whole Band-Aid off in one swift tug. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein...
When the cold war ended, a succession of murderous little wars took its place. Old hatreds that were held in check under the pressure of superpower rivalry sprang to life. It was both a familiar kind of bloodletting and a new kind. Security arrangements like NATO were of no use...
In quick succession, she landed parts in Adventures in Babysitting, Cocktail, the last two Back to the Future films, Soapdish and the Marrying Man.
What he sees is not limited to his modern perspective encroaching on a discrete point in history; Taymor has created a sort of collapsed-time anti-history, allowing visual elements of every period of history imaginable to lead the audience through a journey of personal and intellectual association. For instance...
Less glaring but equally important is Assad's sense of his own mortality. Pushing 70 and in ill health, this past year Assad witnessed the passing of his colleagues King Hassan of Morocco and King Hussein of Jordan. The aged Syrian leader is anxious to make peace in order to...