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...addition of two lesser known Rodgers and Hart ballads do little to develop the characters; rather, they hurt the peace of the show. This Pal Joey runs a somewhat slow two hours and 40 minutes...
Would tourists still flock to London to watch the lesser royals queue up at bus stops or elbow their way through soccer crowds? Would the British really relish a workaday monarchy like Denmark's? The problem with all solutions to the current problems of the royals is that their historically entrenched tradition is profoundly irrational. Early in Victoria's reign, Walter Bagehot wrote of the crown, "Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." Sometime, probably not very far in the future, the British people will have to decide whether they want the magic...
...possible death at the hands of the commandos. The military says the 130 are hard-core fighters, a claim many Palestinians dispute. Saleh Abdul Jawad Saleh, a West Bank political scientist who has studied Palestinian fugitives, says most of those who have given themselves up were wanted for lesser offenses, such as throwing rocks or painting nationalistic graffiti. The shooters, he adds, remain at large...
...Muslims would be left with little more than the few towns and slivers of countryside they now hold. The Serb, Croat and Muslim cantons might even theoretically join in a confederation that would be called Bosnia. But that would be a pious fiction; in reality Serbian, and to a lesser extent Croatian, aggressors would have extinguished any independent, multiethnic Bosnia...
Striking themes more political than presidential, Bush attacked Clinton as a dangerous liberal who would raise taxes and has dithered at times of personal and national crisis. While perhaps not inspiring, Bush's lesser-of-two-evils pitch seemed to be working: by week's end polls showed that Bush was narrowing the gap as the relentless Republican attacks began to cut into Clinton's favorable ratings...