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...1950s their mother carefully deposits them with her hometown relatives in Fingerbone, Idaho. Then, with equal punctiliousness, she pays some boys to give her car a push so that she can sail off a cliff in it. Her suicide is shot in a way that provokes the biggest laugh in Housekeeping, a movie that is not as funny as some Forsyth fans will claim, but sturdy and rich. All the girls' guardians turn out to be too old for the job, so their Aunt Sylvie (Christine Lahti) is summoned home from her wanderings to take up the task...
House and Senate Democrats then made their counterproposal, which called for a $28.5 billion deficit reduction in the first year and $58.4 billion the second. The biggest area of difference in the two proposals concerned taxes. The Republican proposal called for about $8 billion in new taxes the first year, while the Democrats wanted $12 billion. Other disputes were smaller, though numerous. In the defense budget, the Republicans proposed a $4.9 billion cut from the 1988 inflation-adjusted level, while Democrats called for slicing $5.4 billion. The priorities were reversed in domestic spending categories such as Medicare benefits and farm...
Lyndon Johnson knew how to compromise better than anyone. Clifford, L.B.J.'s Secretary of Defense, remembers March 31, 1968, when Johnson tried to cut his last and biggest deal with Washington. He went on the air to "speak to you of peace" not war. It was the end of escalation in Viet Nam. Washington, with its peace marchers, Senate harangues, angry poets, editorial cartoons and leaky colonels, had stopped him. He left for the ranch because he knew enough to know he had to yield...
...would have liked. To cries of "Torch the throne of Ershad!" an estimated 20,000 demonstrators clashed with police over three days. On Saturday, at least two dozen homemade bombs rocked the capital. Altogether, three civilians and one policeman were killed, scores injured, and 2,000 arrested. The biggest casualty, however, was Bangladesh's meandering course toward democracy. Ershad ordered the arrest of Protest Organizers Begum Khaleda Zia, 43, and Sheik Hasina Wazed, 40, the country's two top opposition leaders. Khaleda Zia is the daughter and Sheik Hasina the wife of assassinated former Presidents...
Offensive Line: It's one of the biggest (the line averages 245 Ibs. per man) reasons why the Crimson offense has performed so well this year...