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...There is also a more populist tinge to Obama's message, as he tries to draw a clearer and more detailed distinction between his policies and McCain's, particularly on taxes. McCain, he says, is promoting "$300 billion worth of tax breaks for the same folks who've been getting tax breaks under George Bush." And he told the crowd that a top McCain economic adviser (a reference to comments by former Senator Phil Gramm) "is calling you whiners. ...This guy obviously doesn't pump his own gas. He obviously doesn't do his own shopping. He's obviously...
...becomes clearer on Saturday, when I end up at a yacht club party of professionals in their late twenties, mostly expats working in finance. After I get to the party, a group of us end up talking about languages...
Documentary films are mediated too, by the filmmaker's natural desire to find a coherent narrative, to lure you into the stories of the people onscreen--to (it's not a bad word) entertain. Nowhere is this itch to Hollywoodize reality clearer than in American Teen, director Nanette Burstein's account of one year, 2005--06, in the lives of four high school seniors in Warsaw, Ind. It's the rare documentary that could score at the box office, and not just because Paramount Vantage, its distributor, is pushing it hard. You're likely to have an absorbing, unsettling time...
...century. Because of his awesome political strength, Reagan is in a unique position to cut that deal with the Kremlin and win the approval of Congress. But to do so, he will require not only the luck and acumen he has already demonstrated in such abundance but a clearer understanding than he has shown to date of both the risks and opportunities he faces as a result of SDI. He will also need a firmer ability to control the unruly, ideologically divided bureaucracy over which he presides. Both the case against SDI and the considerable leverage it gives...
...Pennsylvania case, Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ''I'm absolutely elated,'' said Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. Said American Civil Liberties Union Attorney Lynn Paltrow: ''What we have here is a majority that is clear about abortion rights and getting clearer about why abortion has to be protected by our Constitution.'' Some opinions were more qualified. ''We would have preferred a 7-to-2 decision,'' said Eve Paul, vice president for legal affairs for Planned Parenthood. ''On the other hand, I don't think the end of the world has come...