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...considered a sugary nothing; the film is punished with the omission of its director, Lasse Halstrom, in the directing category; "Billy Elliot" director Stephen Daldry gets the nod instead). Worried about Soderbergh, the year's most deserving director, having given us one solid crowd-pleaser ("Erin Brockovich") and one minor masterpiece ("Traffic"). He could split his votes, thereby making way for Ridley Scott (whose "Gladiator" is expected to win Best Picture) or Ang Lee (whose Golden Globe makes him formidable competition...
Despite the fact that its benefits for most Americans will be minor, Bush's proposal requires so much money as to raise a strong possibility of blowing the budget. Once one factors in the roughly $400 billion in interest on the national debt that would otherwise have been retired, the cuts will cost the Treasury $2 trillion. A cut of this magnitude represents a profound threat to the successful fiscal discipline of the Clinton era. After securing the Social Security and Medicare surpluses, which many in Congress rightly feel should be reinvested in their respective programs, and after allowing...
While the differences between a historic and a conservation district are small, they were significant enough to win over the Council--and the property-owners in the Square. Minor building changes can be approved by the director of the Historical Commission--no lengthy process is necessary. And the power of the HSDF as a third-party group is ambiguous in the city ordinance rather than guaranteed...
...Public hostility is understandable. Most of the genetically engineered crops introduced so far represent minor variations on the same two themes: resistance to insect pests and to herbicides used to control the growth of weeds. And they are often marketed by large, multinational corporations that produce and sell the very agricultural chemicals farmers are spraying on their fields. So while many farmers have embraced such crops as Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybeans, with their genetically engineered resistance to Monsanto's Roundup-brand herbicide, that let them spray weed killer without harming crops, consumers have come to regard such things with...
...tennis match while vomiting. Willis Reed limped to an NBA championship on a withered ankle. By comparison, TIGER WOODS, whose sport requires leisurely walking and the occasional poke at an inanimate ball, just had a little knee ouchy. But with a horde of cameras following him, Woods' triumph over minor injury was quickly elevated to the stuff of Olympic tearjerkers. Leaving the 18th green at Pebble Beach, Calif., after practice last Wednesday, Woods accidentally stepped on the ankle of a voracious autograph seeker, spraining his left knee. With the eager fan screaming at him for not signing, Woods retreated...