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...none of these reasons captures the true horror of long-distance love. I hate distant relationships because of the way they enslave lovestruck collegiates. No freedom is allowed for those unlucky ones joined by the fiber optic umbilical cord...
INTERROGATION. A Polish woman (Krystyna Janda) is arrested and tortured by the state, then bears her inquisitor's child -- a poignant metaphor for a generation of Poles sired in fear. Ryszard Bugajski's political horror movie, banned for eight years, plays like a suicide note smuggled out of the Gulag...
FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, by Stephen King (Viking; 763 pages; $22.95), offers a quartet of horror novellas that show this vexing and engaging storyteller at close to his best. What has always charmed and exasperated about King's enormous run of books is a quality not exactly childlike -- James Thurber could be childlike, and so could E.B. White -- but rather teenager-like. The early teens, at that; King is stuck permanently at about 13 1/2. He bops through these stories with the mischievous imagination of a young adolescent, and also the wearying energy, sloppiness, ignorance and complete lack of subtlety...
...parents wondering constantly: Is my child really safe? "Finding child care is such a gigantic crapshoot," says Edward Zigler, director of Yale's Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy. "If you are lucky, you are home free. But if you are unlucky, well, there are some real horror stories out there of kids being tied into cribs...
Without the luxury of a further provocation from Iraq -- an invasion of Saudi Arabia, the killing of Western hostages or some other horror -- it may fall to the Kuwaiti Emir to request that the United Nations act militarily. The collective-security provisions embodied in the U.N. Charter's Article 51 could provide the legal fig leaf for an internationally sanctioned war against Iraq while preserving at least some element of tactical surprise...