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...week... www.somanintheknow.com. Make it your home page... We just scored an interview with Adam Sandler. Look for it soon...Fargo and The Shawshank Redemption are my two all-time favorite movies. So you can imagine that I'm not a particularly big fan of the Oscars since they ignore brilliant movies like these in favor of drivel like Forrest Gump and The English Patient. But I actually feel bad for the Academy this year-what in the world can voters look forward to? There's no good movies on the horizon... I hate getting political, but the election...
...past performance is any indication, Jonas is ready. In his limited action, Jonas has often performed on par and, at times, above the standards set by his predecessor. He sparkled in the Crimson's playoff run two years ago, delivering brilliant performances against offensive juggernaut RPI. In that same year, Jonas finished with better stats than Prestifilippo, securing a 3.22 GAA versus...
...first volume of Schlesinger's memoirs, "A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950" (Houghton Mifflin; 557 pages; $28.95), is a rich, spirited performance. Schlesinger moves energetically down the years, meeting everyone worth meeting, dispensing opinions (sometimes brilliant, sometimes merely partisan and captious, sometimes dead wrong, as when, early on, he pronounces Harry Truman to be a corrupt mediocrity). T. S. Eliot wrote, "The trilling wire in the blood sings beneath inveterate scars,/ Appeasing long forgotten wars...
...brilliant fall Saturday in New York State, the surface of Congers Lake reflects the small airplane motoring above it, rolling left, flipping over, circling in a Cuban Eight, then gliding effortlessly through the October wind. "Flying straight like that is very delicate," offers one nervous spectator. "He has the bare minimum amount of wind under his wings. If he gets it wrong, that plane will crash, straight down. You won't see it again...
...perhaps his most brilliant and lethal display was in 1995, when Gore and Clinton adviser Dick Morris pushed Clinton to break with the Democrats and agree to a balanced budget. Gore then doubled back on Morris, who wanted Clinton to sign on to a budget bill that would have cut Medicare and other popular programs. Arguing against a deal, Gore predicted the government shutdown and convinced Clinton it would play into his hands. Gore, who wrote his college thesis on how the power of television gives the President an edge over Congress, even coached the President on exploiting the media...