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...tying down American education was the weighty price of college tuition, then the President's tax cuts will do the trick. He wants to provide $1,500 per year for two years of post-high-school education and a $10,000 tax credit for college tuition. Dole's more modest proposal will give a $2,500 interest deduction for student loans and restore the federally guaranteed loan program through private banks...
...Israelis in 30 years. Something had to be done immediately. As a State Department official put it, "We're not talking voluntary checkup here. We're talking emergency-room procedure." Stanching the bleeding proved to be perhaps no better than first aid. In public the principals mustered a modest bonhomie to mute the disappointment. But TIME's look behind the closed-door negotiations, from Jerusalem to Cairo to Washington, found that under the smiles and civility lies the old intransigence...
This has been a campaign season of modest politics, with modest excitements. What it got on Sunday night in the first of the presidential debates was a modest face-off--low-key, congenial and small bore, However good that may have been for the quality of public discourse, it didn't do much for Bob Dole's dwindling chances on Election Day. He needed to come away from the debate in Hartford, Connecticut, a clear winner, He took prizes instead for good behavior...
Hare's plays usually teem with ideas and political passion. He took on the British justice system in Murmuring Judges, postwar disillusion in Plenty, the church in Racing Demon. Skylight is a more modest piece, essentially a two-character drama about a wealthy restaurateur who arrives at the bleak little flat of his former mistress and tries to rekindle their affair. First we learn, rather tediously, the background of their relationship: they met when she went to work at one of his restaurants; she left him three years ago; his wife has since died of cancer. Then, after some getting...
This. Hanks' feature-film debut as writer-director, That Thing You Do!, tries to infuse his personality in a story set in a time of innocence: small towns, state fairs, the modest dreams of being in a band and kissing the lead singer's pretty girlfriend. But the transplant doesn't take, because Hanks hasn't given his 1964 fable of would-be Beatles (or Byrds or Searchers) the solid bass line of story sense...