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World War II was the most destructive war in history. We have collectively resolved time and time again that the tens and tens of millions who perished shall not have died in vain. Yet, for all the pious proclamations to the contrary, Bosnia shows that we have not remembered the lessons we swore that we would never forget. In the town of Mostar, pock-marked by mortar shells, someone has scribbled on a wall a reminder and a reproach: "Don't Forget." Maybe this time...
...film begins with the Elliots being hounded by their creditors, their debts so large that they must rent out the family estate, Kellynch Hall. Anne's vain father, Sir Walter Elliot (Corin Redgrave), and her malicious older sister, Elizabeth (Phoebe Nicholls), protest in horror, showing immediately that they lack that prime Austenian virtue, good sense. Only Anne and Lady Russell (Susan Fleetwood), who in the film seems something of an aging bohemian, make the necessary case for relocating to the resort town of Bath, where, as Sir Walter's lawyer tells him, "It is possible to be important at less...
...Simpson was preparing to fly to the Caribbean country for a ceremony at the Casa de Campo, the exclusive resort where singer Michael Jackson secretly married Lisa Marie Presley last year. But Cochran today said that Simpson was at his California home. Reporters staked out a Dominican airport in vain on Sunday, but the rumored aircraft never materialized. Day of Judgment: Photographs from the Simpson Verdict
...click of the air conditioning switching off. As he strained to see the time on his electric clock, Packwood realized there was a power outage. Worried that he might not have adequate light to groom himself for the morning talk shows just hours away, the Senator searched in vain for a flashlight. In a closet he found a Coleman lantern, only to discover that the glass was broken. Further gropings turned up a second Coleman, but Packwood fumbled in the dark, spilling kerosene. Finally, an hour after beginning his quest for light, Packwood produced a flicker--at which point...
Last Thursday, when Ethics Committee chairman Mitch McConnell of Kentucky released his panel's 10-volume, 40-lb., 10,145-page record, there were ample depositions, affidavits and a 174-page bill of particulars to document those charges. There were also diary excerpts that revealed a vain, lecherous, insecure man still caught in the clutches of adolescence. In a 1989 entry, Packwood described an office encounter with a female staff member. "'Would you like to dance?' She says, 'I'd love to.' So I slipped around the side of this gigantic desk and we danced. Boy, she wrapped her arms...