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...that of the elderly, many seniors are forging what some call a "partnership of the vulnerable," which child advocates say could be a model for other Sun Belt states. "People don't realize the extent to which kids' advocacy in this state is being driven by seniors," says Roy Miller, director of the private Florida Children's Campaign in Tallahassee. "They're tired of being labeled as the group that says no to kids...
...Miller and other activists agree that seniors were crucial to getting a state-funded universal prekindergarten ballot measure passed in 2002 as well as a Children's Trust fund for Miami-Dade County, both of which raised the kind of pro-kid taxes that Florida retirees traditionally scorn. When the legislature last year crafted what many called an inadequate pre-K plan, thousands of elderly "condo commandos," like the Greater Aventura Citizens Association (GACA) in South Florida, deluged Tallahassee with phone calls and e-mails to help win changes like lower teacher-student ratios. At this spring's legislative session...
People say that Jon Stewart has blurred the line between news and humor, but his Daily Show airs on a comedy channel. Coulter goes on actual news programs and deploys so much sarcasm and hyperbole that she sounds more like Dennis Miller than Limbaugh. Consider an exchange on Fox News in June 2001 with Peter Fenn, a Democratic strategist. At the time, Barbra Streisand had suggested that Californians practice more conservation, to which Coulter responded...
...that somewhere needed to be Japan, well, then, good for you, Gabe, and thanks for the memories. Orlando Cabrera brought flash to the field and fun to the clubhouse, and we'll learn down the road whether we made the right move at short. All these new pitchers-Clement, Miller, Mantei, our old whipping boy Wells-weren't they all dinged up, only yesterday? Our pitching roster could be the in-patient list at a Newton-Wellesley rehab clinic by July...
Their final confrontation, a running vehicular battle, is spectacular enough, but it traverses terrain that George Miller and the rest of Max's creators have fully charted before. Once again, as they did in The Road Warrior, they have flirted with greatness. The question that remains for Mad Max IV to answer is, Can they embrace it? And not go all solemn when they do? --By Richard Schickel