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...Dennis, Andrew and I sort of have a process, which is we'll all write separately. We would talk about scenes that we wanted to do, and whoever had the idea, or whoever had a grasp on a scene or a monologue or whatever, they would write it, and then we'd bring it back in, and we would go over it together, and that was sort of how we worked. And when I look at the movie now, it's funny, because I can see things that Dennis wrote, or things that Andrew wrote, or things that I wrote...
...Gore do command all the resources of incumbency. In any case, an American presidential election seems relatively unimportant in a world context that is, for the moment, abruptly changed. Arafat has succeeded in discrediting the peace process itself, an act of wanton perversity. The Palestinians had within their grasp the best settlement they will ever get - almost all of the West Bank and Gaza, the prospect of a shared Jerusalem. But perhaps in the Palestinian subconscious there remains a sense of injured honor that judges it must win back by force of arms land lost by force of arms...
...problem is that scientists still haven't reached any definitive conclusions about cell-phone radiation (see box). Given that, consumers may grasp at whatever data are available when deciding what to buy. That will be true especially for purchases made for children, whose developing brains absorb more radiation than adult brains and who could be exposed to potential harm for decades to come. That prospect has led parents like Gilbert Yablon to just say no. "I don't let my [eight-year-old] daughter talk on the cell phone," says Yablon, who runs a movie-graphics company just outside...
...President Ford insisted to Jimmy Carter that there was "no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe," making his grasp of foreign policy seem shaky...
Porter said that if Bush--who has been roundly criticized for speaking blunders during his campaign--can demonstrate he has a firm grasp of the issues and show his commitment to them, he will emerge as a "real winner...