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...also proposed streamlining Medicare, increasing military readiness, paying off the national debt by 2012, and adopting a flat, across-the-board capital gains...
That move succeeded in the first two rounds, when Harvard defeated Colgate and Army, but was knocked flat on its face against No. 3 Princeton on Sunday...
...Unfortunately, instead of ending in an explosion of confusion and humor, the conclusion of Shear Madness falls flat. In the second act, when the questioning of the characters has ceased, the audience is asked for their input one final time and then the actors turn serious. The conclusion of Shear Madness is without a doubt its weakest part; the audience suddenly feels like they are being subjected to a forcibly scripted scene despite the previous casualness, and the show cannot pull off the sudden twist to drama...
...Human attempts to remold the land for agriculture on a grand scale have also failed. In 1989 I flew over the catchment area for the Samuel Dam, a hydroelectric project just outside Porto Velho in Rond?nia. The land there is so flat that the newly built dam flooded 46,500 hectares of forest, leaving behind a wilderness of dead trees sticking out of shallow water and a vast breeding ground for mosquitoes. The dead trees and mosquitoes were still there when I flew over the area again. But now the talk in Porto Velho is that the dam is silting...
...likely to inspire you to buy a big-screen television. The two-hour pilot explodes with a flashback to Max's escape from a government compound in a high-volume snowmobile chase. The script is mixed: the slang can be forced, the attempts at Buffy-esque humor sometimes fall flat. But it yields up one stunning visual after another--Max perched atop a decrepit Space Needle; nine-year-old Max holding her breath under a frozen lake; Max coolly wheeling Logan down a hospital corridor as an explosion silhouettes her from behind...