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...pass a ban on unregulated "soft-money" contributions to the national parties, which totaled $487 million for the 2000 election, McCain and his Democratic co-sponsor, Russell Feingold, had to accept amendments that have caused a near mutiny among reform supporters in the House. Liberal members of Congress object to a provision doubling the maximum amount of regulated "hard-money" contributions a donor can make to a candidate from $1,000 to $2,000. Public-interest groups such as Common Cause threatened to bolt over another provision that allows state parties to keep collecting soft money, arguing it creates...
...Bible, Job correctly assumes he is personally targeted. (The reader knows he is the object of a wager between God and Satan.) The Guthries must wonder, Have they too been selected for their fate? In the 1600s, such a couple might have seen their plight as evidence that they had sinned or were passed over for salvation. But American Protestants have largely abandoned such harsh Calvinism. At Hope's memorial, the Guthries' pastor, Charles McGowan, recalled Jesus' encounter with the blind man. When asked, "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus replies...
...journalist named Patrick Wallingford is covering a story at the Great Ganesh Circus in Junagadh, India, when his left hand is chewed off by a famished lion. The accident, caught on tape and rebroadcast repeatedly by Wallingford's all-news cable network, makes the victim luridly famous and an object of sympathy to millions of female viewers. One of them, Doris Clausen of Green Bay, Wis., goes so far as to offer her husband Otto's left hand, in the event of his death, as a replacement for Wallingford's. Sure enough, Otto accidentally shoots himself dead on the night...
...from Strangers, and the smashed pair of glasses is clearly from The Birds. The presentation of gleaming silver scissors standing upright with one blade stabbed into a base of red satin sends shivers down the spine as it conjures up the murder weapon from Dial M for Murder. Each object - a bread knife (Blackmail), a ruby necklace (Vertigo), a glass of milk on a silver tray (Suspicion), a black lace bra (Psycho) - is placed on a square of red satin in a glass case along with a small black-and-white scrapbook-style photo of the object's film role...
...only a bland three-minute sequence. The exhibit, though, delves into the art behind the scenes: Dalí's sketches of shots never filmed, eliminated story boards. Huge eyes - one of Hitchcock's fetishes - stare from a curtain recreated from the opening dream scene that stretches across the gallery. Object of Destruction, Man Ray's creation of a metro-nome with an eye pasted onto the pendulum, is copied four times in the dream scene; the original is on display here...