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QUOTE OF NOTE: "Reform welfare? Cut taxes? Crack down on criminals? Balance the budget?...I did it [in Massachusetts] and I can do it [in Washington...
...citizen who reached the end of his patience over an "uncivil and ugly" Congress, Braden is riding to the rescue in the name of mainstream Americans. As a combat veteran--he served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars--he backs a strong national defense but also wants to crack down on inefficient Pentagon spending. His most dramatic proposal: to deprive the President and Congress of their full salary should they fail to pass a budget by Oct. 1 each year...
...trade with Cuba and threatening economic retaliation against the U.S. if Clinton carries out the law's most severe penalties. Ironically, Castro has benefited politically from the crisis. A CIA estimate this summer concluded that the new sanctions have actually strengthened his regime, handing it a convenient excuse to crack down on dissidents. "We're left now with a relationship that's more dysfunctional than during the cold war," says Robert Pastor, an NSC expert on Latin America during the Carter Administration. But in Florida, Clinton leads Dole in the latest polls by as much as five percentage points...
...mission he doesn't take lightly. Henriksen, a craggy-faced, baggy-eyed actor, portrays Black as the kind of guy who wouldn't crack a smile if Strom Thurmond showed up in his driveway doing the Macarena--levity is useless in this cruel, cruel world. Speaking always in an exhausted whisper, Black is so intense that a perfunctory how are you doing from his wife Catherine (Megan Gallagher) elicits the answer, "I'm just confused about something I thought I understood about evil...
...works for a quasi-governmental law-enforcement organization known as the Millennium group. He has amassed enemies over his long career, and every time the camera turns to one of his co-workers or a friendly new neighbor attempting a chat, there is the sense that his haven could crack like a Pottery Barn picture frame...