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...When Bob Hunter, right, and Paul Watson joined buddies in Vancouver in 1971 to protest U.S. nuclear testing in the Arctic, they didn't realize they were setting off their own explosion. Calling themselves Greenpeace, the Canadians went on to stage demonstrations against sealing and whaling, all with media-savvy stunts, like hovering over a seal pup in front of a huge icebreaker. Even so, Watson quit Greenpeace as too timid and started the more radical Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose tactics include ramming whaling ships. Eventually Hunter quit as well, but the two left a big legacy: a wavemaking...
...senators, who included Florida senators Connie Mack, a Republican, and Bob Graham, a Democrat, would certainly find backing from such eminent liberal legal scholars as Alan Dershowitz and Laurence Tribe if their purpose is to question the constitutionality of the process by which the raid on the Miami house was ordered, but that's unlikely to be enough for those legislators fired up by the campaign to keep Elian Gonzalez in the U.S. Attacking Janet Reno for ordering an armed intervention at a time when a negotiated solution was supposedly within reach would take the inquiry into tricky waters...
...individuals and talk-show guests. A centerpiece of the premiere issue is an interview conducted by Oprah with Camille Cosby--wife of Bill Cosby, grieving mother of the murdered Ennis Cosby and, of course, Oprah's close personal friend. O's financial, health, relationship and spiritual experts (Suze Orman, Bob Greene, Philip McGraw, Gary Zukav) are all frequent guests on Oprah's show...
...somehow haven't been able to squeeze into your schedule although you've seen Romeo Must Die three times already. Harper has the right look and sound to be a subterranean music hero (his sound mixes protest folk and feedback rock, and his hairdo is a cross between Bob Dylan's and Jimi Hendrix's). But his songcraft--which is sometimes more about edginess than hooks--has always looked better on paper than it sounds...
When comedian Bob Newhart and his fiance, Virginia Quinn, asked a priest to marry them, the clergyman balked. Show-biz marriages never last, he told them. The priest was wrong. Thirty-seven years later, Bob and Ginnie are still together...