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...town. But movies last forever, so Emily Watson will have to explain to her grandkids what she was doing as a dim private eye who pretzels the language ("You killed somebody dead") but solves a Chandleresque mystery. Rudolph (Afterglow) is the perp of the year's most un-sit-throughable caper. Nick Nolte, Dermot Mulroney, Nathan Lane and Will Patton are the accomplices. And you, poor viewer, are the victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Trixie | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

...world that we do not care to live in a global community by shirking our duties to the United Nations. We owe a huge monetary debt to the U.N., we have recently rejected the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and we have repeatedly refused to contribute troops to UN peacekeeping missions. Let's get over our vision of the U.S. as an island separated from the rest of the world; we should, and we must participate in these issues of global security...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, | Title: Don't Abandon Sierra Leone | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...should trust Gore. Since he's actually written a book on the subject, he is familiar with all the relevant data. He has surely heard of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sponsored by the UN itself. And he must have seen Bert Bolin, chair of the IPCC, admit in debate that the vast majority of warming this century took place before 1940. Aaah, the good old days--so many cars on the road that Henry Ford even let you "choose between black and black...

Author: By Bolek Z. Kabala, | Title: What's All This About Warming? | 5/10/2000 | See Source »

...familiar luscious sound of Sarah Cracknell's voice fills my headphones as I turn on the new St. Etienne album, The Sound of Water. The British pop trio with the un-British sound has been together for more than a decade now, and it seems like they get better with every album. This latest recording, soon to be released on the Mantra label, follows 1998's fabulous Good Humor. It is a bit more subdued than the previous album, with fewer outright pop hits, but the songs play tight, and various electronic beats are mixed very well with lounge-style...

Author: By Arts Editors, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums | 5/5/2000 | See Source »

...female cards for TV, says, "Weight for weight, women boxers are often as good as their male counterparts. I haven't had a single event where the women haven't received a standing ovation." Cedric Kushner, who admits to a personal aversion to the sport, features distinctly un-Playboy-ish female boxers on his cards because "the fans respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diamonds In The Ring | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

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