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...ROUND 3: I think we've got one of those gaffes that people remember. Twenty-four years after Gerald Ford said the Russians didn't dominate Eastern Europe, George W. Bush just invited them back in to play a larger role. As Gore pointed out, the Russians tend to lean Slobo's way. The whole Bush emphasis on foreign policy has been that we coddled Yeltsin and the Russians. Now he's sent an engraved invitation to Moscow. Weird...
This time neither candidate can afford to take anything--not even the thermostat--for granted. When the two men lean into that awkward handshake next Tuesday in Boston, they will be looking at one of their last chances to define for undecided Americans what is at stake in November. The race is dead even, and more voters will be taking a common impression from the three debates than at any other time during the election...
That was the year Vitaly Ovakimian decided Krayzelburg's future. The coach at the Red Army club in Odessa, Ukraine, selected the "born backstroker" with the long, lean body and the almost double-jointed elbows to enter the Soviet sports machine. It churned Krayzelburg through five hours a day of training and produced a superior product...
...purple cushions in her trailer, the Woman of the Future does not look as though she could clean your clock. Yet as Max, the bioengineered heroine of Dark Angel, the dystopian sci-fi drama from Titanic's James Cameron, Jessica Alba sports skintight bodysuits and leather as, swaggering lean and feline (literally: Max has cat DNA), she dives through windows and KO's tough guys twice her size. Now, barefoot and swaddled in a massive black turtleneck and baggy jeans, it's as if she has been shrunk within her clothes...
...exhortations to bear witness to unhappiness, not salvation. It takes the unabashed spiritualism of "God's Golden Eyes" and "Before I Go" at the album's conclusion for Hiatt to give himself at least a little more time before his final accounting. "Crossing Muddy Waters" is a strong, lean piece of work, and if it lacks the one or two standouts that would put it among Hiatt's very best, no one can accuse him of flinching...