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...movie, directed by X Files creator Chris Carter and written by Carter and series producer Frank Spotnitz, Mulder and Scully are back, but so much has changed that they seem the aliens. For an obvious start, the stars are older. Anderson, 25 when the show premiered, will hit 40 next month, two days after Duchovny turns 48. In the new movie, he's bearded and wasted-looking, her profile is more hawklike; and the camera traces the lines the intervening years have written on their faces with the odd intensity of Nicholas Cage running his finger over the route...
...politics than I do and doesn't button her shirt all the way up. But I did catch that during the last Democratic Convention, she did a lot of box-hopping. "I was in Ron Burkle's box explaining to Andre 3000 how the convention works and who Jimmy Carter was," she said. I imagine there was also a part of the convention when Ron Burkle explained to Andre 3000 and Jimmy Carter who Heather Thomas was. In fact, I'm guessing different versions of that lasted all four days...
...razor-thin margin right. His barometer uses three criteria: the approval rating of the incumbent President, the economic growth rate and the "time-for-a-change" factor of whether the incumbent's party has controlled the White House for two terms. McCain's score is the worst since Jimmy Carter's in 1980. "History suggests that McCain is toast," Clive Crook wrote in the Financial Times...
...orbit, 22,300 miles up. Smart rocks would also have to be launched from space in order to hit a missile during boost. One plan would fire the rockets from ''gun pods'' in low orbit so they could speed to the vicinity of a rising Soviet missile. But Ashton Carter of Harvard, an SDI skeptic, points out that such sensors and gun pods would be vulnerable: ''Hovering a couple of hundred kilometers over enemy territory is a very uncomfortable place to operate.'' In fact, the entire SDI apparatus for boost- phase sensing and shoot-down would have to be predeployed...
...understand the rationale for it.'' The rationale, according to those who advocate a system to protect silos, is that they are now vulnerable to a pre-emptive attack by the Soviets' vast arsenal of fast, accurate warheads. At the conference, Walter Slocombe, who during the Carter Administration held a Pentagon post comparable to the one now occupied by Perle, agreed that ''in principle'' defending silos is ''not a bad idea.'' But, he argued, there are cheaper and more reliable ways to defend the U.S. capability to retaliate. Among those suggested at the conference: hardening missile silos and developing a system...