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That's not meant as criticism of this film. Its major sin--a certain ineluctable improbability--is pretty much offset by the moments of winsome humanity Gibson finds for his freebooter; by the rich, nicely tuned portrayals of the other actors; and by director Ron Howard's smoothly professional mastery of yet another genre that is new to him. Nevertheless, as a matter of social policy, limits should probably be set on our intake of Tom Mullens clones. His real-life models don't need any more good publicity. And they are rarely as cute as Mel Gibson...
Taylor was constantly checking with Domenici to make sure that he could find enough spending reductions to offset $500 billion to $600 billion in tax cuts and still balance the budget by 2002. At a meeting on July 13, Domenici said he could do it. He also warned that those cuts would be extremely difficult to make politically, but that did not seem to set off any alarm bells...
Dole has paid a heavy price for that coyness. It left him and his aides woefully unprepared for persistent questioning as to what spending he would cut to offset his tax cuts and balance the budget. Domenici's folks had suggested some specific spending cuts and the closing of some corporate-tax loopholes. Dole chose not to talk about those ideas, because he wanted to keep the spotlight on tax cuts rather than spending cuts and feared that loophole closing could be represented as a tax increase. Thus he was reduced to asking the public to trust him to find...
Cardin emerged as something of a political prodigy in 1966, when he was elected to the Maryland House at age 23. His restrained personal manner is offset by his intensity as a legislator: he co-sponsored the 1995 Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Bill and supported bills to cap medical-malpractice damages, increase the tobacco tax and deny welfare to children of illegal immigrants as part of the controversial Immigration Reform Bill...
Slayton wants government to help improve education, take care of the sick and elderly and protect reproductive rights. But tobacco has been the burning issue in this race: Slayton wants to hike the price of a pack of cigarettes 25%, using $4 of every $5 raised to offset the medical cost of tobacco-related diseases and the rest to fund anti-smoking education for kids. Philip Morris isn't located here, but many of its employees...