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Remarkably, only a few weeks ago, congressional Republican leaders were still cautiously talking about putting America on a "glide path" to a balanced budget and making a "down payment" toward that goal. But the defeat of their balanced-budget amendment, along with some goading by Democrats, steeled them to pursue the battle by other means. "The change in the temperament of the people seems to make it easier than reducing the deficit in the past has ever been. It's a lot different," says an elated Pete Domenici, the Senate Budget Committee chairman. "I find it much easier to lead...
Each weight class is divided into two morning heats and an afternoon final. The conference coaches' poll decides heat assignments, with both crews in the same heat as Princeton this year. The top three teams from each heat compete in the afternoon finale, which both Harvard crews traditionally glide into...
Slick men with tight pink tank tops glide across campus. A half-naked guy in a wig sings a lively Judy Garland medley in the Union. And two Owl members demonstrate the homoerotic nature of their brotherly bonds by performing a mock "marriage" in front of Widener library...
...have little new to say about those demons, but it has plenty to show, in images that mix beauty and horror, atrocity and comedy. Angels and red horses glide across the night sky. Mallory's family life is played as a grotesque sitcom that ends when her awful father (Rodney Dangerfield) is beaten to death and her weak mother is set ablaze. When Mickey and Mallory visit an Indian shaman (Russell Means), the words demon and too much tv are superimposed on their torsos. Flashes of Hitler and Stalin, insects and rhinos, The Wild Bunch and Midnight Express (the film...
...same field, awaiting the same duty, Charlie Martin, 42, leader of the Wolf Creek Hotshots from Glide, Oregon, said of his job, "I've been to places in Montana and Alaska that no one else has. That's the romantic, exciting side. But the other, real side is that it's hard and dirty work." Fred Burger, 34, one of Martin's warriors, agreed: "It's an adrenaline rush. But it's also falling down cliffs, dodging dead trees and rocks falling on you, breathing thick smoke, not knowing where...