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...opening few scenes, he looks like he will. He acts with presence and confidence, playing Caliban as the downtrodden but spirited revolutionary. But that interpretation just doesn't work. Caliban's situation strikes the viewer as poignant because, by our society's terms, he is only semi-human. To transform him into the streetwise troublemaker that Reddy portrays is to dodge that most pressing issue. Before the weaknesses in Reddy's Caliban become obvious, the director loses interest in his brainchild, and brings the focus back to Prospero...
...camps unless the players agree to hold the line on salaries. Already the game has lost its supreme arbiter; for the first time since 1921, a season will open with no commissioner of baseball or heir apparent. In the counting houses off the field, schemes are being hatched to transform the leisurely unfolding of the 162-game season into a juiced-up MTV video, complete with expanded play- offs, wild-card teams, Monday-night interleague contests and heedless expansion certain to dilute the quality of the game. Traditionalists may look back on 1993 with nostalgia as the last old-fashioned...
...White House may soon wish it had even more than that. For Hillary's still-developing plan to transform the nation's health-care system is emerging as the most challenging and far-reaching domestic initiative of Bill Clinton's presidency. Selling Congress, much less the American people, on a complete overhaul of an $800 billion-a-year industry that represents one-seventh of the gross domestic product makes selling a controversial budget plan look easy. "Of all the decisions he has made," said one adviser, "doing health care involves the highest risk and is most indicative of his desire...
...inkling of what the future may hold comes from Protein Polymer Technologies, a small San Diego firm that is attempting to transform this notion of biomimicry into commercial technology. The company's first product, intended for use in medical research, is a hybrid composed of silkworm protein and fibronectin, a blood protein that promotes cell adhesion. When painted onto plastic sheets, the hybrid provides a high-quality medium for growing cells in the lab. Soon the company hopes to add to its product line other protein-based coatings, including ones that give cheap polyester the luxurious feel of silk...
...fact, in their grudge-like (and racist?) targeting of Black students, many anti-affirmative actionists fail to acknowledge that beneficiaries of affirmative action include those groups which were especially prepared and equipped to transform "equal opportunity" into "equal achievement." Hence, not only have some Blacks benefitted from affirmative action, but also white women, Asians, Latinos and Native Americans...