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Massachusetts voters will confront taxes on cigarettes and tobacco, as well as tough new packaging requirements, when voting on four state ballot questions in next week's election...
...advise seem wholesome enough, yet it's not clear why they should be tied to such an obvious nonevent as the cessation of menstruation (which, with the latest technology, does not even necessarily signal the end of childbearing). There's no age that isn't a good time to confront one's mortality or to consider a second adulthood -- for men as well as women...
...dozen years, the nation's life has been dominated by a philosophy that proposes to limit government, encourage the creation of private wealth and confront enemies with a huge arsenal and a hair-trigger willingness to fight. The record is mixed. The Reagan-Bush policies hastened the collapse of communism and the end of the cold war. But at home only the rich have truly prospered. The middle class is hurting, the poor are poorer, inequality has grown and the country's ability to compete has been hindered by an undistinguished education system and widespread inattention to the problems...
...Palestinians agree to limited self- rule, even as a temporary measure, the world will forget their cause and they will never achieve their ambition of creating a Palestinian state. "We got the message -- Watch out, something is going to happen -- so we'd better get seriously organized to confront it," says Ali Jiddah, a leading activist within the opposition...
Ultimately, though, hyperbolic scenes played by unoriginal characters fail to confront the film's "deep" themes--"what is hero?" and "how absurd and objective is the media, anyway?" Frears, who in the past brought us edged films "The Grifters," "Sid and Nancy," and "Dangerous Liaisons" seems to have sold out in his first glossy big-budget film. The film's ending is too neat and much too happy, and the performances that Frears has coaxed from his superstar cast-Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, and Andy Garcia-are just mediocre...