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Bennett recognizes a certain debt to a famous predecessor. As George recovers from his illness, he reads aloud from "King Lear" with his doctor. Bennett's king, however, is not about to be destroyed by his heirs and followers like his Shakespearean predecessor...
Power Play: B-. Nothing seems to work--and Tomassoni has tried just about everything. Harvard hasn't even sniffed the excellence of last year's wonder-unit; its 17.5 percent success rate is barely half that of its predecessor, and given the amount of skilled talent still present to fill the slots on the five-on-four, that fact is most irksome...
...Vincent now for the sexual abuse of 15 years past, which now becomes reconstructed as a public legal case. In this sense, the second part of the film is narratively continuous with the first part, yet it also clearly deviates from the more nightmarish techniques and style of its predecessor. The locus of events becomes the public courtroom and the legal machinery surrounding it. Within the drama of this setting come scenes of the private homes and families of each of those involved...
...Northern Ireland peace process. John Bruton, leader of the Fine Gael party and the new P.M., is on the record as supporting the peace process that's been underway since September when the Irish Republican Army declared a ceasefire. Still, he has criticized the quick pace with which his predecessor, Albert Reynolds, embraced the IRA. Reynolds lost his seat in a scandal last month over the extradition of an alleged child-abusing Roman Catholic priest. Bruton was elected to head his country in an 85-74 vote. He now heads a government formed with the support of a coalition...
Rosenthal said he spoke yesterday with his predecessor as UHS director, Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker. Wacker was unable to recall a campus epidemic of such severity, Rosenthal said...