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...murder -- using poison gas, no less -- on Iraq's Kurdish minority. But there is nonetheless something pernicious about the analogy. Regardless of how those making the comparison try to qualify its implications, there is a danger that many of their readers and listeners will, at least subliminally, take the point to its invidious extreme: Saddam equals Hitler, ergo Arabs equal Nazis. As a brutalizing corollary, the forces fighting the Jewish state, from P.L.O. commandos to the child warriors of the intifadeh, can too easily appear as agents of a new Holocaust...
Right. And then? Yes . . . er . . . um . . . At this point in a review it is customary to provide a little more detailed summary of the story, giving potential customers some concrete idea of what they're being asked to buy into. Well this time, forget it. What can be reported without hesitation is that there is another Jake, that he is played by Harvey Keitel, and that early in the film he catches his wife (Meg Tilly) in bed with his business partner and rubs him out. After that, you're on your own. In showing that what seems...
...Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan remains wary of inflation, particularly in the face of the latest oil shock. To help persuade Greenspan that it is time to budge, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady last week repeated Administration calls for cheaper borrowing costs. "Everybody wants lower interest rates," Brady said. "At this point in time in the U.S., economic growth is very important." Concurs Lyle Gramley, a former Federal Reserve governor who is chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association: "To refuse to ease interest rates now would be like deliberately choosing a recession to bring down inflation...
...initial hoopla surrounding his surprise candidacy has since died down, and Nelson, who began running TV ads this spring, has sliced Chiles' early 34-point lead in the polls to just 12 points. In April Chiles defused a crisis by dealing openly with a disclosure that he had taken the common antidepressant drug Prozac for four months to combat moods he called the "blacks." But last week Chiles confirmed that he has resumed taking the drug, leading Nelson's running mate for lieutenant governor to suggest publicly that Chiles might be a "suicide" risk as Governor...
...campaign. In response, Chiles crashed a Nelson press conference in Tallahassee last month and angrily accused his opponent of smear tactics. "If you've decided you want to be Governor so bad you've got to destroy my character, , then I feel sorry for you," Chiles said, at one point jabbing his finger toward Nelson...