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...traveling a few blocks uptown, to see Reba McEntire in the Broadway revival of "Annie Get Your Gun." Sure, this Irving Berlin classic is about as mainstream as theater gets (though Graciela Daniele's tasteful update, which originally starred Bernadette Peters, goes a long way to neutralizing the politically incorrect treatment of Indians). But a country singer playing Annie Oakley? It's a notion so obvious and unexpected that it has the shock of the revolutionary. The real shock, though, is how well Reba pulls...
Bush's latest marketing technique has been to portray the cut as a necessary antidote to recession. Yet if we are on the brink of a recession, then the surplus estimates are incorrect, meaning that in a few years we may not have any money to spend on tax cuts. Additionally, gradually phasing in a long-term tax cut plan will not have any immediate effect on a recession--Bush's top economic advisor, Lawrence B. Lindsey, has written that tax cuts have too slow an effect to be useful in fighting recessions. Fighting a short-term recession is better...
There was nothing really wrong with the Taliban, says Haji Mangal, a small-time local commander in the city of Khost. They were "good people," he says, who got mixed up with the wrong company?international terrorists, that is. Such politically incorrect remarks would be hard to find in many parts of Afghanistan. But Khost has always been different...
Paramount is traditionally tighter, and only dispenses hot dogs as it pitches "Hot Ticket," its new show featuring film critic Leonard Maltin. "It's 'Siskel & Ebert' meets 'Politically Incorrect'," offers a helpful sales rep. "Would you like some chili on your dog?" I go for the chili. I feel guilty that I'm unable to buy the show...
Bollinger also made national headlines in 1987, when he testified against Ronald Reagan's nomination of Judge Robert Bork for Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that Bork was incorrect in stating that only political speech--not novels, poetry or scientific papers--was protected by the First Amendment...