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...alone, but it's hard to begrudge him the part. As J. Pierrepont Finch, the World Wide Wicket Co.'s window washer turned mailroom clerk turned rising executive, Broderick "brings the same quizzical intensity of gaze and naturalness of gesture that carried him to stardom in everything from Neil Simon comedies to the Civil War epic film Glory," says TIME contributor Brad Leithauser. As satire goes, Leithauser adds, director Des McAnuff's amiable version "lacks even some of the mild bite of the original." But "this appealing production urges us all -- whether we are pursuing business success or just...
...amendment, voted against it in an obscure parliamentary procedure that gives him the right to force another roll call on it next year. President Clinton, who opposes the amendment, blamed the defeat on the GOP's refusal to protect the Social Security trust fund from budget cuts. Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) said the vote showed the Senate cannot shake its "addiction" to deficit spending. The amendment, which cleared the House, would have required the government to start balancing its budgets by 2002. TIME Congress correspondent Karen Tumulty says Dole hopes to muster enough support to approve it next year...
...ones before it, so calculations made in October may provide an essential tool for November's assignment. Thompson's students admit they often begin hopelessly lost until, by dint of their own collaborative labors and their teacher's counsel, they find their way. ``It's the biggest satisfaction,'' says Simon Heffner, a senior. ``You don't realize you understand it and then it hits you!'' In the end, adds Thompson, ``they have knowledge that they can deploy, as opposed to just passing a test.'' It is no coincidence that Dalton began its plunge into technology with the Archaeotype program. Excavation...
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...district, at the Metropolitan Opera House. It is one of the few places in the world that can offer truly grand productions of an art that thrives on bravura and artifice. This season the Met has two such extravaganzas, new productions of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. Both look real enough to step into. Butterfly's fragile cottage is guarded by a line of sentinel iris standing in an authentic Japanese garden. The walls and ceiling of the doge's council chamber in Boccanegra, which opened in late January, are frescoed in Renaissance magnificence. Both settings...