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...commits suicide in her despair over his death. Although the plot is the standard quest situation, it demands that the film deal with the question of religion, God and the afterlife. Somehow they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams can become sullen and morose in a place decorated in grand color-by-number style where a person's every wish is fulfilled? Cuba Gooding, Jr. breathes some life into the story. His energy actually recalls some of Williams' early comedic work...
...more waffling on whether teacher testing should be required. It should. No more hollow promises that education will be job one. Let's face it: during the Weld/Cellucci administration, a focus on education was woefully absent. No more knee-jerk reactions to bad test scores. The governor needs to set the tone for an informed and reasoned debate about the best way to train and test our state's future teachers...
...roll call vote at the end of last night'smeeting, 28 representatives voted for the bill, 15voted against it, 10 abstained and 23 were absent...
...Absent or abstaining members will have one weekto vote on the amendment by e-mail...
Saddam Hussein has called Washington's bluff, and the U.S. hand is looking shaky. As President Clinton meets Monday with his national security team to discuss Iraq's suspension of U.N. arms inspections, Saddam clearly believes that, absent the mother of all "bimbo eruptions," the U.S. is unlikely to muster the political will and the international support necessary for military action. Which leaves Saddam, improbably, holding most of the aces...