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Since August, the tightly wound Holbrooke has been at the center of the action. Reporters are likely to find him in the early hours of the morning roaming hotel corridors in his bare feet, looking for someone he can drag into his room to chat with while keeping one eye on cnn. He power-naps for 15 minutes or so, sometimes during meetings while supposedly listening to a translation. Aide Rosemarie Pauli-Gikas is assigned, among other tasks, to pinch him awake at the right moment...
...concerns the knife attack on Seles two years ago by a lunatic at a tournament in Hamburg. The second time around, Walters comes up with a new question, one that's not on the index cards. Referring to the knife wound on Seles' back, Walters intently asks her, "Do you ever look at the scar?" Seles, tears welling up, replies, "Never. I'll never look...
...promise to sin no more. Maybe it was the example of hundreds of thousands of men converging on the capital in a call to genuine repentance that inspired President Clinton and Bob Dole to do some penance themselves last week. But in their case, the gestures of apology wound up looking more shameful than the original...
...Carswell wound up at Harvard largely through what he calls "a fluke." While racing at the Canadian Nationals in December of his senior year in high school, he was spotted by a Harvard team member, who recommended him to coach Frank Haggerty...
...lack of emotion and their primal immediacy which also surface in the frequently sexually explicit profanity. Yet the beauty and despair of certain scenes--from the opening shot of a subway roaring above a maddened Brando to his visit to his dead wife--makes one understand how the over wound coil of primitive emotion at the core of the movie would give rise to such carnality...