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Second City's first law was that onstage its performers should avoid tension and strive for harmony. "You're supposed to make your fellow actors look good," says Ramis, also an early Second City star. "Bill internalized that ethic more than most. Belushi would come out, and the audience would laugh before he opened his mouth, but then he'd go into an extended character thing that would make the other actors feel superfluous. Bill got other people involved. He had energy, integrity. He was fascinating to watch...
...within the G.O.P. there are sharp disagreements--over, for instance, how the government will cover the shortfall in Social Security revenue promised to today's seniors during the transition to private accounts. Some favor borrowing the money, while others think taxes need to be raised or benefits cut to avoid adding to the deficit. The President, while opposing tax hikes, has yet to deliver a concrete proposal. "If you can fix this thing without pain, sign me up," says Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. And if you can escape the propaganda war over Social Security in '05, you're not paying...
Undaunted, Blagojevich told TIME he plans to avoid the pitfalls of previous efforts by creating a narrower definition of what is violent or sexual. "The violence [banned] would be human-on-human violence and realistic depiction," says Blagojevich. "It's a definition comparable to obscenity statutes that routinely get upheld by courts," he says. Geoffrey Stone, a professor at the University of Chicago law school who specializes in constitutional law, says the Blagojevich bill focusing on sexual content has the best chance of succeeding because it would fall under the category of obscenity for minors, which is a widely accepted...
...persuade Israel to return to the negotiating table. His first task is to disarm the gunmen of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the Arafat-backed group that has ruled over Palestinian towns like gangsters. Senior Martyrs Brigades officials tell TIME that Abbas has offered to buy back their weapons to avoid a confrontation. But the militants have shown little sign of moderation. "We were the warlords under Arafat," says a Brigades leader in Ramallah, "and we will be the warlords after Arafat...
...According to the American Stroke Association, 19 percent of stroke sufferers suffer aphasia (trouble speaking or understanding the speech of others), and old age is the ultimate compounding factor when judging the impact of any ailment. While prosecutors have already dismissed the stroke itself as yet another ruse to avoid being held to account, Chile’s judicial system must now tread exceptionally lightly on the question of Pinochet’s standing trial...