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Randomization is one of the last issues Jewettwill confront before retiring at the end of June...
Ultimately, the Republicans prevailed by a comfortable 58 votes, largely in the interests of political solidarity. Now, as they face the next 100 days, G.O.P. leaders must confront the conflicting goals they have set: the ideological imperative of tax breaks and the public's mandate that they cut the deficit. Last week the party's leaders were startled by the effort that it took to win the contract's final big provision, the one that many had thought would be among their easiest. "I didn't think it could be this hard to cut taxes," moaned Ohio's John Boehner...
...others are fighting back. Arguing that they are the victims, the accused are suing therapists for allegedly putting ideas in their patients' heads. In Napa Valley, California, last year, winery executive Gary Ramona took his daughter's two therapists to court, claiming that they had induced her to confront him and say he had molested her. Ramona's wife subsequently divorced him and, once his employer found out about the accusations, he lost his job. The jury agreed that the therapists had been negligent and awarded Ramona...
...dangers that the staff does not adequately confront is self-segregation. At Cornell, the administration has endorsed self-segregation by dedicating dormitories specifically for Black, Hispanic and, soon, homosexual students. Cornell believes that these conditions will make students more comfortable, but instead it has created a set of isolated and closed communities. How would a Black student feel upon entering the Latino Living Center to visit a Hispanic friend? Probably not very comfortable. Cornell's system discourages the kind of interaction that broadens students' minds...
...adult Selena should not be in the movie. In King's book, she disappears as a teen-ager; Gilroy brings her back tediously to confront the issues involving her father's death. She should have stayed in the void. Leigh's Selena is a whiskey-swilling, cigarette-smoking caricature of a journalist, who spends the majority of her scenes complaining. Jennifer Jason Leigh has her moments with Selena, especially in the epiphany scene on the ferry, but for the most part Leigh's acting skills are wasted by the script. She just reprises her addiction roles from "Dorothy Parker...