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...University may need a president who is “a mender more than a go-getter,” Zofnass added...
After first-round votes were tallied tonight, incumbent Anthony D. Galluccio, the perennial top vote-getter on the council, was the only candidate who reached the quota of about 1,600 votes needed to be elected. With all 33 precincts reported, the number of votes that each candidate received, out of a total of 15,994 votes cast...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER likens Meredith, her character in this fall's film The Family Stone, to another manicured go-getter with a public relations problem: John Kerry. "Kerry had it in him," the Sex and the City star and outspoken Democrat says, but like Meredith, "he just couldn't get it across the footlights to the people." Instead of red staters, Parker's rigid, pencil-skirt-and-pumps-clad city type is attempting to win over the Stones, her fianc DERMOT MULRONEY's large "nubby, woolly, pajamas-all-day, college-town" family--played by, among others, CRAIG T. NELSON, DIANE...
...appeal is that it's a conventional dream movie with a realistic surface--a marshmallow dipped in grit. With its muddy color palette, the film looks as if it has been painted on velvet. But the plot is pure wish fulfillment. DJay gets transformed from no-gooder to go-getter by beautiful music (when he's moved to tears by a church choir). Then there's the Rocky factor. That movie, about a bum turned hero, was a happy pill after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. Brewer sees his film as a return to workaday humanity...
...getter Katie Couric, whose interview with Wilbanks airs this week...