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...with a few explicit love scenes featuring uber-couple Kidman and Cruise. However, the movie has had its troubles, including mid-filming cast changes, extended reshoots, and a ratings battle. with the MPAA. Question is, if the film gets a very unmarketable NC-17 rating, will anyone dare to tamper with the late Kubrick's legacy...
...Gulf War marked the first time in this century that American forces went to war fully equipped and fully trained. The results, quick victory with miraculously few allied casualties, speak for themselves. Now that the U.S. military has finally got it right, let's not be too quick to tamper with success. Though some post-cold war cutbacks are inevitable and necessary, history shows that in the end it is always less costly to our sons and daughters in uniform when we can meet any foe with overwhelming superiority from the very outset. JERRY KOCH Studio City, Calif...
...Microsoft be found to have transgressed antitrust law. The appropriate solution? Not suprisingly, Barksdale wants the court to forever split Windows from Internet Explorer, making the bundling of the two illegal. This is, however, little more than a pipe dream -- not only have antitrust judges been historically reluctant to tamper in product design, but the court of appeals ruled last June that the Windows/IE package seems to be "a genuine integration." Netscape's chief is quite a showman -- and there's plenty of smoke and mirrors involved...
...fair-minded jurors--to announce pre-emptively that they wouldn't vote to convict Clinton if he were impeached. That brought a dark warning from the sage of the Senate, Robert Byrd of West Virginia: "I would suggest by way of friendly advice to the White House: Don't tamper with the jury...
...coming up on the new millennium. It's time to tamper with things," says Christian McBride, a 27-year-old bass player who has recorded with everyone from Betty Carter to Diana Krall. A Family Affair (Verve), his third album as a leader, was released last summer. It includes some smart electric tunes (though listeners who actually lived through the 1970s may not be eager to reacquaint themselves with the sound of Moog synthesizers) but reaches its peak with an acoustic, rhythmically virtuosic version of the Sly Stone title song that somehow manages to swing while also suggesting the original...