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...pass a crime bill. Meanwhile, Clinton worked the phones, trying to get lawmakers to reverse last Thursday's embarrassing rejection of the legislation. TIME Washington correspondent Julie Johnson says that despite the daylong effort, the President does not have the numbers to pass the bill. A vote will occur either Friday or Saturday. Clinton's strategy, says Johnson, is to concentrate his lobbying firepower on the Democrats and not count on any Republicans to jump on his bandwagon...
...theaters on September 23, and re-release the film in late November in hopes of dominating the year's two biggest movie seasons. This novel marketing strategy is intended to coincide with school vacations, revitalizing the movie's audience appeal and chances for Academy Award nominations, which occur in the winter. Though the movie has been the source of some controversy over political incorrectness and threats of a lawsuit over copyright violations by a Japanese firm, no changes to the film's content are planned. Total take so far: $233 million...
...Talking Heads -- songwriters and instrumentalists all. Until they came along, a girl with an electric guitar seemed as incongruous as a horse with an accordion. Says Madder Rose guitarist-singer Mary Lorson: "I didn't really start playing guitar until I was 22 because it just didn't occur to me that this was something I could do with my life...
...alike, on whom the armed men prey. Many Hutu militiamen were renegades, their drinking and raping and viciousness tolerated by army officers. As relief workers struggled to get food to the spreading camps, the Hutu, equipped with cars and radios, kept track of where the next food distribution would occur and raced to get there first. The militia, many of them drunk or stoned on marijuana, stopped convoys to demand bribes and a portion of the supplies, wildly firing their weapons...
...arraignment date has not been set, but willlikely occur in the second week of August, Reillysaid yesterday