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...condition. Bauby recalls a contract he signed before his illness to write an updated version of the Alexandre Dumas classic The Count of Monte Cristo--a tale involving a paralyzed protagonist who communicates by blinking. "The gods of literature and neurology decided otherwise," Bauby laments, adding a twist. "To reverse the decrees of fate, I now have in mind a story whose main character is a runner instead of a paralytic. Who knows? It might work...
...supply-side, over the past month information has come to light regarding flagrant drug-related corruption in the Mexican government. In a twist of irony so violent as to be nearly unbelievable, the head of Mexico's national anti-drug agency, General Jerus Gutierrez Rebollo, was arrested on drug charges earlier this month. Furthermore, through the testimony of Magdalena Ruiz Pelayo, the private secretary to Mexico's former President's father, new information has come to light about drug dealing that enused between narcotics traffickers and some of Mexico's highest ranking officials, including, not surprisingly, relatives of the former...
...play explores the classic romantic triangle but with a twist: The "other woman" is an ectoplasmic ex-wife. Charles Condomine (Robert Bouffier) is a writer researching the occult for his next novel. Together with his second wife, Ruth (Sheila Ferrini), he summons the delightfully eccentric medium Madam Arcati (Mara Clark) to perform a seance in his home. Through some mysterious circumstances, his first wife Elvira (Dee Nelson) appears--and refuses to leave. One disaster after another ensues as Elvira and Ruth fight it out for their husband--fertile ground for Coward to flex his comic muscle...
...GWYNNE, our Austin bureau chief, has been covering labor issues for TIME on and off for the past nine years, first as Detroit bureau chief and later as national economic correspondent. His story this week on the dramatic showdown at American Airlines presented him with an unusual twist: the pilots' strike deadline came at just about the same time as our editorial deadline, so Gwynne had to fashion most of his story without knowing whether the pilots would walk out. "I reported it as though we were heading toward a major strike," he says, "while at the same time rooting...
...complicates our simple analysis. Datamatch can only be successful if people feel that romance is not very likely to occur on its own; in other words, the appeal of Datamatch is born of a deep disillusionment with any natural prospects for a social life. In a peculiarly 90's twist, the technical precision of the computer fills the role that spontaneity--or a good-hearted matchmaker--played in the more personal days of yesteryear...