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...attempt at Clinton-style values polling--yet claims to hate poll-driven politics. He calls himself a crusader against corporate tax loopholes, yet came out in support of ethanol subsidies that chiefly benefit one conglomerate, Archer Daniels Midland, because he wants to curry favor with Iowa farmers. "What's fatal," says a Gore strategist, "is holding yourself up as superior...
This doesn't mean that Robbins tries to be all things to all people, a fatal flaw of most directors who try to attract mainstream audiences. Clearly he had a very specific vision in mind for this film, which is theatrical in style and pointedly liberal in its mosaic-like reconstruction of a chapter of American history. Robbins wins us over by playing it fast and loose with material that could easily have appeared dry and familiar, so that the occasional weak link and oversimplification in the film's interlocking web of stories seems irrelevant in the face...
This change, if it sticks, has been a long time coming. In a not-so-subtle nudge to tobacco companies, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has since 1987 issued dire statistics conclusively linking cigarettes to 25 percent of America's fatal house fires: In 1997, those blazes claimed roughly 900 victims, including 140 children. Of course, while these grisly numbers may have finally prompted a response from Philip Morris, they're small potatoes when compared with the annual death toll of people who stick cigarettes in their mouths, not just in their carpets. Changing that habit is going to take...
While Harvard was able to edge Ohio State, its lack of experience proved fatal in its match against Edinboro, a top ten team...
...mall's parking garage, Gary Chatelain, a 20-year-old Haitian male, received a fatal gunshot to his chest as terrified shoppers fled the scene...