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...mighty have fallen. Brian De Palma, who hit a directorial high watermark with _The Untouchables_ also has a nasty and annoying habit of making really bad movies. Painfully...
...campaign where all of the candidates' skeletons have been marching out of their respective closets, McCain must be feeling left out. How can he compete with Bush's alleged cocaine habit or Al Gore's marijuana stint? He needs pizzazz for the polls. He needs...
George Bush and John McCain share a peculiar habit: they often introduce their fathers as a way of introducing themselves--even before they mention their wives, their children or the reason they are running for President. With Bush, the resemblance is so uncanny, his face does all the talking, even before he reminds you of how he got it. "When it comes to picking parents," he likes to say, "I did a fabulous job." McCain for his part presents his best-selling book as his coat of arms: Faith of My Fathers, he says, is the story of three generations...
...ever since. While working on his next book (he's up to page 2,613), he teaches the creative writing he may no longer be capable of and carries on a tryst with the dean's wife (Frances McDormand). As someone says, "His heart kept beating only out of habit." Grady is the one thing a Hollywood hero is never allowed to be: tired...
Drugs and the war against them have a habit of corrupting Latin America's politics - and that could put Washington right back in the thick of the Reagan-era counterinsurgency from which President Clinton has tried so hard to distance himself. With a $1.6 billion U.S. aid package to the Colombian military at stake, President Andres Pastrana and U.S. drug czar General Barry McCaffrey found themselves forced Thursday to defend the Colombian army from allegations that it remains intimately connected with right-wing paramilitary groups notorious for human rights abuses. But despite Pastrana and McCaffrey's insistence that the military...