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...Streep, in particular, is a marvel - a cheerfully pious woman refusing to admit disappointment and doing her best to divert her adolescent daughter (an excellent Lindsay Lohan) from her addiction to writing suicidal poetry. It seems to me that she, alone of the cast, has the true Keillorian spirit, which is simply to use a kind of perpetual perkiness to elbow aside the surrounding dread (or at least darkness). I'm guessing, of course, but I suspect that's a spirit that she found in herself, that it's not something Altman coaxed out of her. There's no evidence...
...role of Israel supporters in formulating American foreign policy, Walt and Mearsheimer now famously claimed that the U.S. is acting against its own interests in the Middle East because of the powerful “Israel Lobby.” “[No] lobby has managed to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest,” they wrote.They identify this lobby as a loose movement of organizations, such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the American Enterprise Institute, and officials such as Paul D. Wolfowitz and Connecticut Senator...
...place), and it is far from clear, as the Commission later acknowledged, that any standardized tests could be developed to accurately reflect the diversity of higher education curricula. Moreover, setting up a national database to track student performance, in addition to throwing serious privacy concerns by the wayside, will divert federal funds from programs that would produce tangible benefits—not more bureaucracy. Should Bush’s vision prevail, he has left us with little confidence in what will happen to American education should institutions, with their budgets reduced, fail to meet the thresholds they are being held...
...chair. Scrushy, the former head of HealthSouth Corp., poured over $700,000 into Birmingham, Ala., churches and ministries during his felony trial in 2004, a coincidence noted with more than a little skepticism by his prosecutors. (Scrushy was acquitted). Battistoni raises similar questions about Lay?s attempt to divert the money to charities in the fall before his trial started, but he doesn't believe the money is "tainted" since it was donated before the shenanigans at Enron began...
...don’t know that some of this can’t be accomplished by the market study,” said committee member Richard Harding, who ultimately voted against the motion. Other committee members said they were worried that continued discussions about declining enrollment could divert attention from other important issues that the committee should address. “I think that this has the potential to derail a lot of other important things,” said committee member Nancy Walser, who also voted against the motion. She asked the committee to consider the issues of student...