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...plot itself is poorly structured. Chances are that you will find yourself wondering, fairly often, what is going on. Why Allen is so intent on finding Linda in the first place is never really explained. And sure, dirty jokes are funny. But there is a cutoff point for everything. Unless the sight of a dildo lying in a fish tank makes you crack up, most likely you will end up rolling your eyes at Allen getting hot and bothered when he sees the latex fish...
...budget by 2002, are planning to provide a credit of $500 per child to families earning up to $200,000 a year. But that tax break would exclude more than a third of the children in America whose families earn so little that they owe no income tax. (The cutoff is $24,310 for a family of four.) Those families, however, pay record amounts of Social Security payroll tax, from which Congress is offering no relief...
Current Phi Beta Kappa members are eligible to elect new members, a process which includes an examination of transcripts, activities and letters of recommendation. The bottom GPA cutoff for men this spring was roughly 13.9 according to member Rajath Shourie '95, who is a Crimson editor...
Blindsided by the allegations, President Clinton ordered his Intelligence Oversight Board to conduct a "government-wide review" of the case. The White House is also investigating whether the CIA in 1990 secretly increased aid to the Guatemalan military to make up for a Bush Administration cutoff of overt military assistance as a protest over the Devine murder. FBI agents were dispatched last week to the NSA's headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, to secure its communications records on Guatemala. The cia, Pentagon and State Department launched their own investigations...
...England may be presented in New York next season--American goods imported from Britain--and it deserves to be. Meanwhile, during the remainder of this Broadway season, things may be looking up slightly for homegrown products. From now until the May 3 cutoff for Tony nominations, at least six new plays are planned, including yet another by McNally. Still, opening-night mortality rates being what they are, theater pros know better than to predict a resurgence of plays on Broadway. "Two or three," says Jujamcyn Theaters president Rocco Landesman, "would be an avalanche...