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Having gone 0 for 8 with Democratic presidential candidates, political consultant Bob Shrum is exporting his golden touch as an adviser to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. On Sept. 24, Brown delivered an address that bore Shrum's fingerprints, including phrases strikingly similar to those in speeches by former clients Bill Clinton and Al Gore. And true to form, Brown's Labour Party promptly dropped in the polls...
...BOB WEINSTEIN, SAN DIEGO...
...plays is sometimes likened to torture, and Epstein concedes that it is highly challenging. According to Epstein, the shorter pieces even tend to be more mysterious than the larger ones, which are more accessible to an audience viewing them for the first time. “Bob [Scanlan] knows these pieces very intimately and was able in a certain sense to decode them for us...The audience absorbs the moment because we are doing it with understanding,” Epstein says. The audience’s comprehension of these pieces is something that remains very important to Scanlan...
...fact that the President has vowed to veto the measure has made Democrats even less willing to go out on a limb. "Why risk losing all those contributions when the President's going to veto it anyway?" said Bob McIntyre, head of Citizens for Tax Justice. Since there won't be enough votes to override a veto, this Congress will likely have to pay for the tax fix the old-fashioned way: by adding to the deficit...
...since Steinbeck has been able to illuminate the vast and unfathomable panoramas of the American landscape so well; nor, since Conrad, to locate so adeptly the sinister madness that pervades human culture. The first film adapted from McCarthy’s work was 2000’s disappointing, Billy Bob Thorton-directed effort “All the Pretty Horses”. Consequently, one might expect that Hollywood would once again mishandle the work of one of the literary geniuses of the last century. In the hands of Joel and Ethan Coen, however, these suspicions could not land further from...