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This weekend the congressional and White House budget summiteers will try again to work out an agreement to chop down the deficit. They will meet in the officers' club complex at Andrews Air Force Base for three days. It is no longer just a session on a budget formula. It is an antidote to chaos...
...formula: the duration of American resolve is inversely proportional to distance, time and size of deployment. It is easier for a vigorous people to summon resolve when they are under direct physical attack (like London during the blitz) than when their luxuries (big cars and air conditioners, for example) are being assaulted in remote places. National resolve fares badly when the fighting is far away and most of the people are mere spectators, watching from the BarcaLounger. Over time, the dominant passion of the war (as with Vietnam) may become a feeling of futility and guilt...
...showroom, Honda cars are known for quality and comfort, if not raciness. But on the track, Honda's Formula One cars have consistently blown the doors off their rivals. Now Honda is taking its racing technology to the streets with a new mid-engine sports car called the Acura NSX. The $60,000 two-seater, which arrives at West Coast dealerships this week, is the most expensive Japanese car yet. The auto has been so eagerly anticipated that more than 1,500 of the first year's U.S. shipment of 3,000 cars are already spoken...
...Iraqis? The Administration's answer is that it would try to fine-tune the effort to maximize the discomfort of Iraqis, and thus the political pressure on Saddam, without causing actual starvation. To stave off a famine, it might, for example, agree to permit emergency shipments of baby formula and grain...
...that matter, it also never understands how the experiment sprung into Nelson's head in the first place, or how he stumbled upon the specifics in his formula for death. But this is certainly an ambitious and lengthy film, and necessarily starts in media res. And Flatliners more than compensates for its faults. The deft directorial manipulation of largely unsympathetic characters, and the fine, full characterizations by the actors so involves the audience that it cannot maintain critical distance...