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...kept control of both the Senate and the House. In one way, that might be called a historic outcome: it was the first time in 68 years that the G.O.P. maintained control of both chambers through two straight elections. But though the margins remained in doubt late into the count, they appeared likely to be narrow enough to make "control" a bit of a misnomer. Probably the only sweeping conclusion the vote justified is that Americans by and large do not trust either party enough to give it full control of the government, or of Congress as a whole...
...upset longtime Democratic powers in 1994. Michael Flanagan two years ago stunned everyone by dethroning Dan Rostenkowski, overlord of the House Ways and Means Committee. On Tuesday, though, Flanagan fell to Rod Blagojevich and a Chicago Democratic machine no longer burdened with defending a Representative under a 17-count federal corruption indictment, as Rostenkowski had been. On the other hand, the biggest giant killer of them all, George Nethercutt, held on to the Washington State seat he had snatched from Tom Foley, House Speaker until...
...epic intellect for a tale of potent romance. But its sophistication never obscures the story, which is as charged as the North African adulteries in Casablanca and The Sheltering Sky. Here is an Englishwoman who tells her man, "I've always loved you." And here is a Hungarian count who vows, "I promise I'll never leave...
...English, this Count Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), nor is he at all patient. But those are the words on his medical papers when, scorched and disfigured, he comes under the care of a Canadian nurse named Hana (Juliette Binoche) in Italy at the end of World War II. To the wounded, Hana is a guardian angel, listening like a doting mother to their plaints, caressing them like the chaste lovers they left back home. Setting Almasy up in a ruined monastery, she swathes his parchment skin and reads to him from his precious volume of Herodotus, while Caravaggio (Willem...
...want you to hear this one song. If you like it, you'll do it." It turned out he hadn't written any lyrics; all he had was a melody. "He started laughing," says Houston. And then he started playing the song on the piano. Houston joined in, improvising: "Count on me through thick and thin/ A friendship that will never end..." They recorded that song, Count on Me, and, later on, two more. Edmonds' melody had won her over--and the pair...