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...movie, a perfectly pitched and hilarious genre send-up, complete with a woman in perpetual peril (Cathy Moriarty, who is also wonderful as Woolsey's wearied girlfriend). The preview is a riotous muddle at which Woolsey's gimmicks -- Atomo-Vision, Rumble-Rama -- run out of control and literally threaten to bring down the house...
...which policy does he have in mind? If it is Saddam's overthrow, as Bush insisted, the current military options are unpromising. Saddam shrugs off small attacks, and larger ones threaten to blow up the gulf coalition and the Security Council consensus. If, on the other hand, the policy Clinton chooses < is to force Saddam to obey all the U.N. orders, the Administration will want to consider what methods might better achieve that...
...rebuilding doesn't quite seem the right word so far: "recovery" seems more appropriate. Injuries to sophomore defender Ian Moran and netminder Josh Singewald have grounded the Eagles so far this season and threaten the team's flight in the Beanpot as well...
...other reason women don't flee is because, ironically, they are afraid for their life. Law-enforcement experts agree that running away greatly increases the danger a woman faces. Angered at the loss of power and control, violent men often try to track down their wives and threaten them, or their children, if they don't come home. James Cox III, an unemployed dishwasher in Jacksonville, Florida, was determined to find his ex-girlfriend, despite a court order to stay away from her. Two weeks ago, he forced her mother at gunpoint to tell him the location of the battered...
More important, some of the reforms favored by Clinton aides threaten to undermine his promise to create jobs, since he aims to streamline America's most recession-proof industry: health care. Most of the 290,000 jobs created since the recession officially ended in March 1991 have sprung up in the health-care industry, which employs 9 million Americans. Since the election, Bristol-Myers has announced that it is cutting 2,000 of its 53,000 jobs, and Warner-Lambert expects to eliminate 2,700 of its 35,000 positions. Insurance companies, a principal target of Clinton's reform philosophy...