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...Governor Bush patiently walked to the microphones with one of those "tax families" that have become a staple prop used to explain how his tax plan helps real people. Bowing his head almost as in prayer, he read their vital statistics from the prepared briefing book. "Juan and Brenda Hector make $45,000, have two children," read the candidate to the profoundly uninterested press corps. Soon you could hear the clubs coming out of their cases. Nearly the second he'd finished giving the two-minute introduction to what in a perfect world would be a symphony of questions about...
Bang, Bazooom, Boing went the questions off the tin sides. The Hector family watched the hectoring in a daze, Brenda holding on to her young daughter like a bag of flour. And when you're in the drum you can't hear yourself speak, which was on display again today as the governor repeatedly referred to the "sub-lim-in-able" message in his advertising. Earlier, Bush had denied a Vanity Fair report that he might have dyslexia...
...Elian: The kid from "The Sixth Sense" Juan Miguel Gonzalez (Father): Jimmy Smits Lazaro Gonzalez (Great-Uncle): Hector Alonzo Marisleysis Gonzalez (Second Cousin): Rosie Perez Armando Gutierrez (Family Spokesman): Cheech Marin Greg Craig (Father's Lawyer): Ron Silverman Janet Reno: George C. Scott Fidel Castro: Edward James Olmos Donato Dalrymple: Tony Danza Diane Sawyer: Diane Sawyer Bill Clinton: John Travolta Al Gore: Bernie, from "Weekend with Bernie...
Troilus and Cressida opens with the Greek forces, led by Menelaus' brother Agamemnon, having continually besieged Troy for the previous seven years. Shakespeare concentrates on the opposition between the Greek hero Achilles and the Trojan Hector. Troilus and Cressida is considered a tragedy, playing upon the death of its tragic hero, Hector. Shakespeare also shows how the war caused by one love affair destroys another. The stories of the love between the Trojan Troilus and the Grecian Cressida, encouraged by her uncle Pandarus and of Cressida's desertion of Troilus for the Greek Diomedes, are medieval additions to the heroic...
...This is an act of civil disobedience," said Latinos for Social Change member Hector G. Arce, who is also a Harvard graduate student. "We did not ask for permission to stay here...