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According to local political analyst Glenn S. Koocher ’71, the 1982 push to regulate holiday festivities is in keeping with the “typical pandering” of the city council, which he recently said is governed by a “control mentality” with “no logic or fairness...
...magazine.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Age Veepstakes General-Election Battlegrounds Machismo ACTION John McCain's doctors testified he is as healthy as a 71-year-old former POW and cancer survivor can be; his campaign released his long-awaited and still politically perilous medical records over a holiday weekend, minimizing news coverage. A fired-up McCain dismissively referred to Barack Obama as a "young man," attacking his inexperience. Not McCain's best issues, so by not losing, he wins. Both McCain and Obama are taking seriously the task of selecting a running mate, launching confidential inquiries headed...
...John McCain keeps telling everyone to just calm down about his holiday social plans. "It's just having a group of friends for Memorial Day weekend," McCain said Thursday afternoon, after a rally at an airplane hangar in Stockton, Calif. "It's no more and it's no less. I want to assure...
...kind of contest that Hillary Clinton's campaign would dismiss as meaningless if Barack Obama were favored to win it. But Clinton is favored to win it easily, so she's casting it as an important test of strength among Hispanic voters, and she campaigned there this past holiday weekend. There will actually be 55 delegates at stake, more than in most state primaries, so it won't be meaningless. And it will be unique, because Puerto Rican politics always are. "Politics is our national pastime," says Miguel Lausell, a commonwealther power broker who ran Ted Kennedy's Puerto Rico...
Abel and Junon Vuillard (Jean-Paul Roussillon and Catherine Deneuve) convene their three grown children (Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud) and their kids for the sort of holiday games you'll find in many family reunions: musical beds, generational scores-settling and the ripping off of psychic scabs. Amid all the melodrama - Junon has liver cancer and needs a bone-marrow transplant from someone of her blood - the conversation is bantering, often affectionate. In this chatty 2-1/2hr. film, Desplechin (Kings and Queen) seems to be going for the old French New Wave recipe of emotional warmth...