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...Seasons quartet - A Tale of Springtime, A Tale of Winter, A Summer Tale, An Autumn Tale - in the '90s and another three features in the 2000s. (He was a late starter who never stopped.) At times Rohmer dipped into the past, for The Marquise of O, Perceval and his final work, Romance of Astree and Celadon, but he's best remembered for his lighter films and their scrupulous devotion to the wiles and smiles of women. He ranked with George Cukor, Ingmar Bergman and Yasujiro Ozu as a director, appreciator and avid anatomizer of the opposite sex. And his actresses...
...much more competitive, as the Highlanders hit 46% of their shots from the field and also connected on six of seven from three-point range. But Harvard was able to keep pace and shot 59% from the field in the second half en route to the 69-53 final score...
...still don't know what, if any of this, the President was told or what he did about it. The Administration has appointed former CIA chief John McLaughlin to investigate the matter further. And that means it may be weeks, if not months, before we can draw final conclusions about Obama's performance in handling his most important mission - keeping the country safe...
...Just hours before their final debate, Coakley went on the offensive on Monday, saying Brown would move the country backward to "the failed policies of the Bush-Cheney Administration" if elected. On Tuesday she's expected to fly to Washington for a fundraiser - an unusual move so close to an election, and one that has fueled speculation that she's in real trouble. Adding to that image is a last-minute TV ad buy in Boston and Springfield by the Massachusetts Democratic Party; that push is likely financed by Washington Democrats with money sorely needed to defend vulnerable incumbents...
...Still, despite the fact that the two houses are expediting the process by bypassing a traditional conference committee to resolve their differences, it appears increasingly unlikely that Obama will see a final bill passed by both houses this month as he had hoped. That is not just because of the difficulty in reaching a deal, but also because anything that is proposed must be scored by the Congressional Budget Office for its impact on the deficit, a process that could take nearly two weeks...