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...supposed to be an emergency measure to allow voters to remove corrupt officials. In California it is being subverted to remove an unpopular Governor. I fear this precedent may cause recalls in other states and have a paralyzing effect on the ability of elected officials to govern. To borrow titles from two of Arnold's movies, California's "total recall" may soon turn into the nation's "raw deal." ANDREW J. BINGHAM Kirkwood...
...supposed to be an emergency measure to allow voters to remove corrupt officials. In California it is being subverted to remove an unpopular Governor. I fear this precedent may cause recalls in other states and have a paralyzing effect on the ability of elected officials to govern. To borrow titles from two of Arnold's movies, California's "total recall" may soon turn into the nation's "raw deal." Andrew J. Bingham Kirkwood...
...other people." Saito's son, Tsunehisa Saito, who worked with Katsu for more than 20 years, says, "He was a really caring, very generous man. If somebody asked him, he would lend money even if he didn't have it. So, in order to do that, he had to borrow money from someone else." Among his creditors was Chieko Saito. According to Tsunehisa, she first lent the actor money in the 1970s to save his debt-plagued film company, Katsu Productions. Despite her help, it eventually went broke, but Saito and Katsu remained close, even after his 1990 arrest...
...schooled in fashion, design, culture, grooming and fine dining by five gay guys. Its unspoken premise, provocative but true, is that gay men are the new black people: the oppressed minority whose subculture defines what is cool. "After all these years of deciding whether to beat us up or borrow our outfits," says Ted Allen, Queer Eye's food and wine expert, "[straight men] are choosing the latter." Yes, the show's queen-tet embody stereotypes--try pitching a show on which five Asians help people with math--but they are clever, funny and self-aware. As Allen puts...
...clobber someone, we call him a Nazi or compare him to Hitler. But that doesn't play so well, as Berlusconi and Däubler-Gmelin have learned. So here is a suggestion: If Continental politicos can't think up a suitable retort of their own, why not borrow a rapier from the arsenal of American wit? There's a classic from Congressman Thomas Brackett Reed in the late 19th century, who said of two rivals that they "never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." If Berlusconi had trotted that one out, he would have...