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Republican Senator Olympia Snowe broke her toe at home earlier this month. But that didn't stop the wiry Maine moderate from kicking President Bush while he was down last week. Twice, in fact. The Bush team was reeling from Democratic gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia and a broader G.O.P. rebellion in the House over the President's spending bill. With centrists on a comeback in Washington, Snowe stepped up, drawing attention to the White House's still faltering response to Hurricane Katrina. Bush's Small Business Administration has disbursed just 103 disaster loans to businesses...
...than most actors' careers. As for who ultimately foots the bill, the ukfc has side-stepped the issue for now by pouring $20 million from national lottery receipts into its trial digital systems, which cost around $100,000 each, compared with $30,000 for a conventional system. "The ukfc broke the mold in terms of actually doing something, as opposed to just talking about it," says Richard Nye of Canada-based projector manufacturing firm Christie, which will provide almost 200 of Britain's new projectors. But paying for ongoing costs, such as transferring films from 35-mm to digital, encoding...
Warner has never been one to be discouraged by a stumble or two. A Harvard Law grad, he started out as a fund raiser for the Democratic National Committee, a job that left him so broke he was reduced to sleeping on friends' couches, he recalls, and that he finally gave up to make some money. In the beginning, business didn't work out any better than politics. His initial venture, in energy, failed in six weeks; his second one, in real estate, took six months to fold. But in the early 1980s, Warner saw possibility...
...LENNY BRUCE PERFORMANCE FILM Modern stand-up and (in the Jon Stewart mode) sit-down comedy is inconceivable without Bruce, who, before his 1966 death from a heroin overdose, smashed political icons and broke language barriers with equal daring and wit. In this 1965 filming of one of his last sets, Bruce is clearly addled by drugs and depleted by the series of obscenity cases he had to fight. But his mind still worked with a jazzman's improvisatory genius; the hipster fireworks he launched retain their explosive impact. And, man, was he funny...
Brown scored five plays and took a 21-14 lead on a 28-yard touchdown pass from Joe DiGiacomo to Jarret Schreck with 39 seconds left. Schreck caught the ball at the 20, broke a tackle, and sprinted down the left sideline for the score...