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...congressional critics were all Republicans, as Dan Quayle can tell you, the studios would be scripting a more colorful response and sending Chris Rock to the Hill to deliver it. Or perhaps not, for it pays these days to stay on the good side of Congress, which can bestow both favor and heartache when it comes to copyright issues and mergers. No one respects pandering more than Hollywood does. So like the fictional publicist in "America's Sweethearts," the movie industry has devoted itself to helping the stars of the show give the public what it wants...
...Favorite gift to bestow? A kiss to my wife. (That's Al Gore's too, presumably...
...other? At a hearing last week one judge wondered whether Mary could be viewed as a kind of unjust aggressor, sapping Jodie's lifeblood to the point of killing her, thus entitling Jodie to self-defense. That seems farfetched: it's hard to attribute aggression to a newborn or bestow the self-defense right on a third party like a doctor. The judges appeared last week to be leaning toward the grim conclusion that the doctors' plan is illegal, possibly amounting to criminal assault and manslaughter, because it would violate the fundamental prohibition against the deliberate taking of a life...
...those supposed allies who have publicly worried or whined every time anything went wrong. As always, George W. keeps score. "When we win," an adviser says, "all those people are going to be at the back of the line" for jobs and other favors that a new Administration can bestow...
...will revisit the school awards ceremony in which Bertie's shy, normally abstemious friend, asked at the last minute to bestow the prizes, fortifies himself with several drinks, and thus crocked, embarks on an orgy of drunken truth-telling that includes accusing the boy named winner of the Classics Prize of being a nasty little blighter who cheated...