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...brought down dictators," Bob says to one of his fellow spies. "How tough can three kids be?" He soon finds out; but what Bob undergoes is a day on the couch compared with what Chan suffers at the clumsy directorial hands of Brian Levant (Beethoven, The Flintstones) and arrant typing fingers of the screenwriters, two of whom are responsible for the all-time-awful Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector. It's as if Jackie had committed some terrible crime, and this was the sentence. (See 10 Questions for Jackie Chan...
Vice President on his gaffes. The political consultants' playbook may not have a place for a pol who admits there is a "30% chance we're going to get it wrong" on any issue, as Biden did on the President's economic plan, but the Vice President's arrant candor is a quality to be appreciated, not mocked. Teddy Awards are also hereby bestowed on Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates, who courageously joined this Administration despite being, respectively, a fierce political opponent of the President's and a Republican. Upon arrival, Clinton showed passionate intent to reform long-neglected foreign...
Patience requires a bit of distance, so let's stand back for a moment. Barack Obama was elected President because the governing philosophy of the last 30 years, arrant Reaganism, had proved itself bankrupt. Reaganism was distinguished by four characteristics--at least, according to its own mythology: the belief that government was "the problem" and so less of it was better, tax-cutting (for the wealthy), deregulation and an insistence on military strength as the primary projection of American authority overseas. These were, in some cases, fantasy attributes: After lowering taxes in 1981, Reagan raised them...
Let’s leave aside the echoes of eugenics, the race issues that are inextricably bound up with class here, and LaBruzzo’s arrant disregard for less dramatic measures, such as improving sexual education and access to contraceptives. Forget for a moment that the number of Louisiana welfare recipients has plummeted to four percent of its size since 1990. More alarmingly than all this is the popular response which LaBruzzo’s proposal has received...
Perhaps the inverted comma was forgotten, that other “i” slipped mistakenly in—but that is no excuse for an arrant virginity of art history. A suitably thrilling one-page spread on the “living space” of one Nathan Gunawan ’07 features the fraudulent caption, “Nathan’s reading room: the Gothic library.” But there is, unsurprisingly, nothing Gothic about it. Unless, perhaps, we are being forewarned of the distressingly dim camera work...