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Hopkins, of course. No other actor of his generation need apply. Alan Bates, Albert Finney, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi -- each brings the handsomely monogrammed baggage of an outsize personality. They would be too big for the role, tell too much. Hopkins is just the man for this. For much of his career, as a prissy Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter (his first film, 1968) or the Rupert Murdoch-like press baron in the 1985 play Pravda, he had his own suitcase of mannerisms: the clipped elocution, the run-on sentence, all the pensive ahhs and umms...
...latest cycle of killings is unlikely to change much except perhaps to increase the bitterness and intensify the violence. Last week Major and Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds took time off from an E.C. summit in Brussels to discuss the crisis privately, and agreed on the urgency of continuing talks on the future of Ulster. They concurred that all parties, including the I.R.A. and Protestant terrorist groups, could take part in negotiations if they ceased their terror campaigns. Before the Shankill bombing, John Hume, M.P. from Ulster, and Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A...
PHYSICS Russell Hulse, 42, and Joseph Taylor, 52, both of Princeton, provided the first support for a crucial prediction made by Albert Einstein in his general theory of relativity. The breakthrough came in the early 1970s as they searched the sky for pulsars, the superdense cinders left over when stars explode. Hulse and Taylor were first to find a double pulsar, a pair of objects whirling around each other in tight formation. Einstein's theory decreed that two such heavy bodies orbiting each other should give off gravity waves, which would drain off energy and cause the objects to come...
While Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds cautioned against hoping for an "overnight resolution," he and British officials expressed interest in a fresh peace initiative for Northern Ireland. Advanced by two prominent Roman Catholic leaders in Ulster, the still secret proposal appeared aimed at arranging a cease-fire that in turn could lead to the inclusion of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the outlawed I.R.A., in direct talks with the British and Irish governments and the political parties in Ulster...
...Albert Carnesale, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, said "Galbraith is the exemplum of someone making contributions to the world of scholarship and the world of public policy. For us, he is an icon...