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...Jefferson, the local main street, Weird Harold's Records survives because Dan Bessine, 52, has found a niche the chains can't match. He sells vinyl records on the Internet (find him at Weirdharolds.com) At Valley and Third, the Hotel Burlington reopened as a senior-housing complex this year after sitting vacant for 20 years. And Schramm's department store, which closed five years ago after 150 years of operation, is reopening piece by piece, as a restaurant, small shops and loft apartments...
...enjoy really filthy campaigning, it is necessary to return to the Founding Fathers. In 1800, John Adams called Alexander Hamilton "an intriguant, the greatest intriguant in the world - a man devoid of every moral principle - a bastard...." If Jefferson should win the election (as of course he did), the Connecticut Courant warned, "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will all be openly taught and practiced..." Of course, the vicious campaign rumor that Jefferson had sired several children with his slave Sally Hemings turns out to be true...
...November 1996 6 - Voters elect the Man from Hope, William Jefferson Clinton, to another term as president of the United States, making him the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 to be re-elected. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) earns a third term by defeating his popular Republican opponent, Governor William F. Weld...
Over the past decade, Newton has worked with one famous director after another: Bertolucci, Ivory, Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire) and Jonathan Demme (Beloved). Her co-stars have ranged from Nolte in Jefferson ("F______ funny. What a toilet mouth," she says, again citing a quality she obviously admires in her leading men) to the late rapper Tupac Shakur in Gridlock'd ("I was rude to him. 'What's that tattoo?' I'd ask. We had a flirty-rude relationship...
...Hollywood, following her debut in the 1990 Australian film Flirting (her co-star was Nicole Kidman, before she became Mrs. Tom Cruise), Newton returned home to Britain to study social anthropology at Cambridge and then went on to do small art-house films with directors like James Ivory (Jefferson in Paris) and Bernardo Bertolucci (Besieged). Now, at 27, she's back in Hollywood, with a meaty role opposite the movies' biggest box-office star in this season's surefire action thriller. Make that romantic thriller, because from the minute Newton and Cruise lock eyes across a floor of flamenco dancers...