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...usually hang around on the House floor any longer than they have to. But for Gary Condit, it may be the only sanctuary left. On Thursday afternoon, as the campaign-reform bill was crashing to earth, so did the rest of his life. At the back of the chamber, the California Congressman leaned on the rail, chatting and joking with the men and women who still treat him as a colleague. As the others wandered away one by one, Condit lingered for a while, all alone...
...something realer than real in everyone's playing. You feel that their edgy suburban twaddling may be the way Hollywood heavies really behave in private. Some of the "actors' moments" linger too long, but a shadowy anger and misery underlie the sometimes choked-off wit of this free-form chamber piece shot on digital video. Everyone in the cast has his or her solo, and all rise brilliantly to their occasions, notably Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Beals, Mina Badie and a divinely neurotic Jane Adams...
...congressmen. As Whitman droned on about Bush's environmental policy, all eyes in the room shifted to McCain who darted from table to table extracting whispered pledges of support from four moderates. Three blocks away, Gephardt huddled with Democrats in a packed basement room off the House chamber, waving a news story reporting that the National Republican Congressional Committee had raked in $39 million the first six months of this year, twice what its Democratic counterpart collected. Republicans are winning the money chase and unless Democrats halt it with campaign reforms, "we're going to loose" seats in the House...
...usually hang around on the House floor any longer than they have to. But for Gary Condit, it may be the only sanctuary left. On Thursday afternoon, as the campaign-reform bill was crashing to earth, so did the rest of his life. At the back of the chamber, the California Congressman leaned on the rail, chatting and joking with the men and women who still treat him as a colleague. As the others wandered away one by one, Condit lingered for a while, all alone...
...While we have no current plans to sell our broadband business, Comcast's offer is serious. And we are giving it serious consideration," Armstrong said in a speech to the Boston Chamber of Commerce. "The offer recognizes at least some of the value that we've created in AT&T Broadband. The question is whether it recognizes the right value...