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This time Anne Heche is the thief, Vince Vaughn is Norman Bates--two lonely people who want something from each other and, fatally, get it. Like some of the other actors here, Heche doesn't know the value of seductive repose; she's fidgety, shallow. But Vaughn (a taller, creepier Billy Crystal) understands Norman, his naive charm, his need to watch women, become them, then mete out punishment for the transgression. And William H. Macy is fine as the prying detective. But does any man still wear a hat these days...
...catch? Even a few months of steroid use can permanently damage the heart, trigger liver failure, stop a teenager from growing taller and even put at risk a young woman's chances of ever having children. Another catch: while black-market steroids are widely available, there are criminal penalties for sale or possession without a prescription...
...president refused to let the courts hear his Oval Office tapes -- and to the same audience, the San Antonio Bar Association, that Jaworski addressed in that year. So the independent counsel is trying to spin Intern-gate into Watergate, and himself into Jaworski. Spinning the evidence might be a taller order: Whatever else the Tripp tapes contain, they're no smoking...
...intrigued by your article on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan [WORLD, March 9]. In most south Indian dialects, annan means elder brother, someone who is older and definitely wiser. A vintage meaning, perhaps, but it is a deserved honorific for one who stands taller and sees farther than most of us. In these days of shortsighted one-upmanship, it is comforting to know we have such annans to care for us. May I take the liberty of calling the U.N. leader annan just once with the flavor of meaning of my mother tongue? UNNIKRISHNAN K. PANICKAR Kerala, India...
...longest suspension bridge, connecting Awaji island to the city of Kobe. In the works for a decade, the $7.7 billion project boasts a 6,532-ft. (1.2-mile) center span--measured as the distance between the two towers--dwarfing the 1,595-ft. Brooklyn Bridge. Each of the towers, taller than a 90-story building, is equipped with 20 vibration-control devices; if winds make the structure sway, pendulums tug the towers back. The bridge is designed to withstand earthquakes as powerful as 8.0 on the Richter scale and is strung with enough steel cable to circle the globe seven...