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...Like most soap operas, the film version of Terry McMillan's best seller wins hot tears from its audience by imagining the worst things that could happen to decent people. Starring Angela Bassett and Whitney Houston, this is the familiar story of a quartet of young females looking for love and identity. Director Forest Whitaker ties his film's women to the railroad tracks of caprice and invites us to watch as a betraying beau comes chugging toward them. But Waiting to Exhale doesn't have the idiot vigor to become a camp classic like the movie Valley...
...into the tailspin of a financial and marital scandal. A tearful Waldholtz claimed she was conned by her husband Joe, who she said improperly manipulated both their personal finances and her 1994 campaign funds. Waldholtz insisted she would not resign, though only 39% of surveyed Utah voters believed her version of events...
...single-lens-reflex cameras. Manufactured by Kyocera, the G1 combines the compact, noiseless flexibility of a rangefinder with the auto-everything magic of SLRs--minus the blinking lights, beeping sounds and bulk. With its four state-of-the-art Carl Zeiss T* lenses, the G1 is a thoroughly modern version of the classic Leica, proof that retro is the wave of the future...
...Harvard police distributed the original version of the suspect poster in response to a string of recent burglaries at Matthews Hall. Within a week, an altered version of the poster appeared across campus, in which the drawing of the suspect was replaced by a caricature of a black male and the words "Afro-American" were added to the suspect's description. All the other information was the same...
...with a full Senate vote that may force a court battle over access to the disputed notes of former Clinton aide William Kennedy. The White House, which argues that Kennedy's notes are protected under the attorney-client privilege, failed Monday to convince D'Amato to accept a restricted version of the papers, which the committee believes could shed light on whether two presidential aides interefered with two Whitewater-related criminal investigations in 1993. Even if the dispute fades, the panel has since made a more portentous demand: that the White House produce what it says are missing documents concerning...