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...underlying contention of the Republicans in this was that the Democrats' problems were their own fault. Theresa LaPore was a Democrat. The counties with the Votomatics were Democratic counties teeming with apparently mistake-prone Democratic voters. And the Democrats are complaining about how lousy - and racist - the system...
...Anything recession-esque that happens this spring will be Bush's mandate to loosen things up a little. Any complaints Bush had about the Clinton years look practically prescient now, and unlike Gore he'll be free to find further fault if he needs excuses. And he won't get the blame unless it lasts all year...
...striking thing about the division on the court was how unexpected the fault lines were. The breakdown was not along party lines: six of the seven justices are Democrats. Nor was it ideological: Leander J. Shaw Jr., one of the court's most liberal members, dissented. And political paybacks don't seem to have carried the day. Peggy A. Quince--the one justice whose credentials were signed by Jeb Bush--ruled for Gore. In fact, the only pattern to emerge was generational: the four justices most recently appointed to the court all sided with Gore...
Forrester’s abject uncomplexity is less Connery’s fault than it is that of the film’s poor script, the first sold by radio film critic Mike Rich. Yet Connery does much on his own to make the role irritatingly undistinguished. Forrester’s path of emotional evolution in the film seems forced, each of its extremes a protest against the brusque and wry tendencies that Connery has honed for so long. Thus, when Forrester rails against his life’s misfortunes, his attitude seems unreal, an instrument of the plot. When...
...years after the explosion, as the Soviet Union reached its lowest ebb and collapsed, the environmentalist movement managed to get that reactor shut down. It was a particularly dangerous one, because in those glorious Soviet times they managed to build a nuclear power plant directly over a geological fault. But eventually, after their bruising war with Azerbaijan and suffering many years of power shortages, the Armenians simply reopened the reactor. And it's hard to guarantee that the Ukrainians won't eventually do the same...