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...Schom has written: "On returning to France... much to his utter astonishment, the thirty-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte found himself greeted by a madly exuberant French people who knew little of his phenomenal disasters and instead saw only the man who had captured Malta, the Pyramids, and Egypt, the latter-day republican crusader who had taken Cairo from the heathens...
...domestic initiatives, Clinton's proposal to create a heating-oil reserve in the Northeast would be more reasonable than selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for general consumption, although the latter may be necessary at some point if prices continue to increase. Congress should approve Clinton's proposal as well as resist Texas Gov. George W. Bush's hasty proposal to repeal a 4.3-cent-per-gallon gas tax, which would take away valuable highway funds while at the same time passing savings on to oil producers rather than consumers...
...Children fathered by Brigham Young, legendary 19th century president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
Making audiences feel weird merely for laughing is a sign of something quite wrong, or quite right; here it's mostly the latter. Titus is based on Titus' one-man show Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding, and like many stand-ups turned TV stars, he's a limited actor. But the buff, brush-cut Titus has more to offer than affable my-wife-won't-have-sex-with-me jokes; his every sarcasm and tic betrays an intense, coiled anger. The pilot--in which he and his brother confront their father's possible suicide (Dad's been in his room four...
...them. In short, Burkett's parents behave like a bunch of badly brought-up brats. Childless adults, as she represents them, are mature, sensible--and exquisitely patient. Therein lies the chief weakness of this provocative book: a bifurcation of the human race into the selfish and the selfless, the latter being those without children. The dichotomy is so sharp as to undermine Burkett's argument that pervasive pro-family policies in government and industry unfairly profit parents at the expense of the childless...