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Philandering former presidential political guru and fink-du-jour DICK MORRIS doesn't have much luck when it comes to the tabloids. One such publication blew the lid off his high-powered job as Clinton's chief political strategist when it published photos of him having strategic sessions with a woman who was clearly not his wife--or another consultant. And now a tabloid has published excerpts from his new book, Behind the Oval Office, thus helping wipe out his chances of having a magazine pay to excerpt it. Morris opens the book with an apology to his wife, President...
...decade. That leaves two films whose top-billed actors are women. But even Helen Hunt wouldn't say she's the main reason for Twister's success. And Sandra Bullock, who has her name above the title in A Time to Kill, plays in support of hunk du jour Matthew McConaughey. It's a lousy year for movie women when the meatiest femme role--the comedy, the pathos, the earrings!--is Nathan Lane's in The Birdcage...
Thus, in the name of electoral politics, the misuse of the term reform continues. Few care enough to really understand what reform means; the rest throw the term around because it is the issue du jour. The term becomes yet another casualty in the increasingly long list of words debased. Of course, debasement of language is just symptomatic of an even greater problem. Deterioration of language is synonymous with the degradation of sensibilities as well. For decades, a deterioration has taken place in compassion, in caring for others in the name of self-interest; look at downsizing, an increase...
...onto something. In recent weeks, he has freely wielded the powerful pen of executive directives, addressing everything from educational TV, to gun sales to minors to the notion of asking school districts to require school uniforms, without actually asking Congress to fund new programs. Wednesday's topic du jour: free cell phones for neighborhood crime watch groups. The White House has announced that the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association will contribute 50,000 cell phones pre-programmed to dial 911, along with free cellular air time, to the nation's 20,000 community policing programs to help them combat crime. TIME...
...dialectical look, however, reveals its utter hypocrisy. The Great Hall is not the only example of a redundant monument to a defunct, "oppressive" culture. Another excellent example of such a work is the Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, Egypt. While ancient Egypt is very much the culture du jour, those of us who appreciated this civilization long before it was fashionable to do so realize that, like turn-of-the-century America, it had many not-so admirable aspects. For 2,000 years, the Egyptian Pharaohs and High Priests poured the wealth of their nation and the labor...