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Critics napalm the summer's second Earth-meets-asteroid movie, "an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense and the human desire to be entertained" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The Washington Post 's Stephen Hunter finds it "so predictable it could have been written by a chimp."
The Washington Post and New York Times lead with the Clinton administration's post-Columbus moves to shore up public support for its Iraq stance, with the Post reporting that critics of a U.S. air assault now include Jimmy Carter.
They also voted to ban sales of semiautomatic assault weapons to minors, and many of them voted for a Democratic provision that would prohibit high-capacity ammunition clips from being imported.
Most of the women were referred to Legal Aid by Quigley House, Clay County's sexual assault and domestic violence center.
Angry heavily armed Serbian civilians, many of whom say they had been pushed out of their homes recently by the Albanian rebels, appear to be gathering to reenter their town on the heels of the military assault.