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A few things are more or less clear: the year is 2007, and Harry Wyckoff (James Belushi, stiff-backed and hollow-cheeked) is a patent attorney living comfortably in Los Angeles with his wife (Dana Delany) and two kids. His life starts taking strange turns when an ex-girlfriend (Kim...
"THE FRESHMAN-CLASS REVOLT," CALIFORNIA REPUBlican aspirant Tom Huening called it in September, when he invited prospective new members of the House of Representatives to a post-election conclave in Omaha, Nebraska, to plot the overthrow of the seniority system. Although 170 candidates accepted the invitation, only 14 Republicans (out...
The Tricky Two-Step. Complex sentences are a duplicitous politician's delight. Suppose a candidate plans to oppose kumquat subsidies. Saying so outright to a group of farmers would reap no votes -- just permanent enmity. Instead, the aspirant might try to finesse it like this: "No one in the Senate...
I'M AN ABBREVIATION cynic, not one of those trendy, commentary-on-American-life-seeking, McLaughlin Group-windbag-aspirant media types. But while I thought I'd have wonderful new insight on Americans' diminishing powers of concentration, I've sat here all day, distractedly typing sentence fragments, searching for a...
Conscious of CNN's role as the de facto network of record, Johnson and his colleagues are especially sensitive to matters of fairness and balance. The news network has been diligent about running in full the candidacy announcement of every major-party presidential aspirant. Live coverage of presidential press conferences...