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...Clinton Administration finds its chances for a serious foreign policy legacy--on everything from arms control to the Middle East--under Helms' gavel. When he's in the mood, he seems happy to hand the Administration a big win, as he did with NATO expansion last spring. But most of the time he enjoys outfoxing the White House, as he did last year when he got the Senate to reject the nuclear test-ban treaty. At the end of next week, when Clinton flies to Moscow for his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he will be looking over...
Some books of short stories, such as Joyce's Dubliners or Hemingway's In Our Time, are patently organized around a unifying subject or mood. Other collections simply gather under one set of covers whatever their authors have been writing since the last time their works were similarly bound together. Carol Shields' Dressing Up for the Carnival (Viking; 210 pages; $23.95), her third book of tales, is of the latter, grab-bag variety, offering 22 pieces, almost all of them culled from previous publications. And yet the result is not as random or eclectic as might be anticipated. Shields, whose...
Predictably, officials in this farming community are horrified by the outbreak - and their lousy mood was recently exacerbated by revelations that the city?s water authorities knew back on May 18 that their supply was contaminated but did nothing to stop its distribution. No one knows how the bacteria got into the water, although some speculate recent rains could have pushed manure-contaminated floodwaters into drinking reservoirs. Police are also examining the filtering and chlorinating systems at local water stations...
...return the mood to its prevailing celebratory tone, Spinney pulled out two different mini-Muppets...
...Edward Yang was named Best Director for his stately domestic drama, "A One and a Two." The Best Actor prize went to Tong Leung Chiu-wai, as a cuckolded husband considering an affair with lustrous Maggie Cheung in Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong period romance "In the Mood for Love...