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HOME ALONE. And a little child shall lead them. To the box office, anyway. This crafty comedy about an impish boy abandoned at home on Christmas Eve will reach the $100 million mark this week...
Even now, House Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) told President Bush not to reconvene Congress because representatives might not support military action. "Maybe it was too much to ask with the gridlock of the budget and on the eve of the election," Senator Daniel P. Moynihan told the New York Times, commenting on the failure of Congress to request a formal meeting with the Bush administration to discuss Gulf policy...
Meeting with her Cabinet ministers on the eve of her announcement, Thatcher found that 12 out of the total of 21 members of her government felt she had no chance of winning the second round against Heseltine. Even M.P.s who had voted for her the first time wanted to abandon her cause. To test the waters herself, Thatcher ventured into the Commons tearoom, a cavernous oak-paneled chamber. Settling comfortably into an armchair, she exhorted the Tory M.P.s who gathered around her to keep her in office. It was an extraordinary moment: rarely do Cabinet ministers, let alone Prime Ministers...
...Sotheby's auction failed to find a buyer, despite the house's pre-sale efforts to get sellers to lower their reserves. The "star" offering, Robert Rauschenberg's Third Time Painting, 1961, sold for $3.08 million after its low estimate had been reduced by $1 million on the eve of the sale, to a range of $3 million to $4 million...
Olejarz has been busy in recent years. He has performed at the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as on various streets and benches across the country. He said he will be performing at First Night, Boston's annual New Year's Eve celebration...