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What's the matter with kids today? Just about everything, to judge from the rash of movies about young people that broke out at this year's Cannes Film Festival. While most of the serious award contenders were meditations on 20th century history, like Theo Angelopoulos' majestic Ulysses' Gaze and Kamir Kusturica's Underground (both set in war-torn Yugoslavia), the main trend was Sociopath Cinema. The parade of teen angst-athons was led by the U.S. film Kids...
Germany complained today that President Clinton had not consulted adequately with European lending partners in his haste to fashion aworkable peso rescue package. "We would have wished the coordination to have been a little tighter," Finance Minister Theo Waigel told reporters. The International Monetary Fund approved the $17.8 billion plan Wednesday, despite surly abstentions from Britain, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. "They literally got the proposal an hour before it was announced," says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. "It does appear that Clinton has broken a few eggs on the way to making this omelette." U.S. officials told...
...tribunal -- if it ever gets started -- will be breaking new ground in the history of war-crime prosecutions. Some Nuremberg precedents have been rejected: no defendants will be tried in absentia; nobody will be hanged. All the tribunal can do, says Theo Van Boven, the court's registrar, "is rule that a case exists and issue an international arrest warrant. That would severely limit the movement of such people. They would become pariahs...
...Theo Huxtable flunked a math test because he was partying? A talking-to from his dad will help him set his priorities straight. The deficit is spiraling out of control? A talking-to from Ross Perot will help us set our priorities straight...
...Theo Smart, an organizing member of ACT-UP New York, said Ortleb publishes material from the "scientific fringe," and that his "misinformation can have a very negative effect on today's gay youth...