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...historian, I take the long view on most events. As a Midwesterner, I often have a Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm optimism. At the moment, neither is proving helpful in understanding why the "open confrontation," as al-Jazeera calls it, is continuing. Hizballah has no chance of winning Palestine back for the Palestinians, and Israel's attacks on Hizballah do nothing, long-term, to make its borders safer. But if this conflict continues much longer, Lebanon will have no chance of remaining the special place it is - and I will have to stay in Damascus, a city I do love...
When Hillary Rodham Clinton emerged last week in her new guise as Senate candidate, she stood in a beautiful pasture, basking in the glow of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, for the moment channeling Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm rather than Eleanor Roosevelt. Meanwhile, her likely opponent for Moynihan's seat, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was striding the gritty streets of Manhattan in the middle of New York City's worst blackout since 1977, looking, if not senatorial, like a take-charge Man of the People...
...gave as good as she got. By 1917, Hollywood was turning out features with amazingly assured pizazz; and Pickford's films, often written by Frances Marion and directed by Marshall Neilan, were the best of the bunch--fresh then, still fresh now. Engaging films like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, A Little Princess and Daddy-Long-Legs strutted their effects (dream sequences, clever animation, split screen and double exposures) in the service of fables as bold as they were sweet...
Trouble is, Black 6 and kin often do their jobs too well. "Mice distort or exaggerate what you see in humans," says tumor biologist Robert Kerbel of Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Science Centre. Mouse tumors, which are usually planted just under the skin, grow much more rapidly than deep-seated human tumors. Also, as Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop observes, too much breeding isn't always a good thing. In his labs at the University of California, San Francisco, he is genetically altering mice to provide better models for studying leukemia and neuroblastoma, the most common tumor in children under...
...movie in 1983, he panicked, tore off his clothes and, after walking naked through the countryside, was arrested and sent back to the U.S. "Dennis tapped the bottom," Nicholson says of the bad old days. "He was staying at places that didn't allow visitors. It wasn't Sunnybrook Farm -- no sashay through those rich men's rest homes. He did the real stuff...