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Republican lawmakers were making unsympathetic noises. Maine Senator Olympia Snowe talked of "troubling gaps" in Bush's plan, while House Appropriations Committee chair Bill Young said flatly the numbers don't add up. Many were worried that the budget just pushes the worst problems down the road, since the costs of Social Security and Medicare will explode as the baby boomers retire. Projected revenue losses from the Administration's tax-cut proposals over five years in this budget total $175 billion; projected losses for the five years following it are more than five times as large: $947 billion...
...GREENHOUSE? The new glass-and-steel roof over the Olympic stadium, some fear, will have spectators sweating with the sprinters DEUS EX OLYMPIA The 2004 mascots, Athena and Phevos, have offended a group that still worships the ancient gods. It has sued the Athens committee for $2.85 million...
Documentary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl [MILESTONES, Sept. 22] may be dismissed for her venality, but the godlike image we have of African-American athlete Jesse Owens comes from Olympia, her film of the 1936 Summer Games, made under Nazi auspices. This suggests that however much she cooperated with those in power, her aesthetic remained her own. DANIEL MERCER Pennsauken...
...blind faith or political maneuvering, was a common phenomenon. Was Riefenstahl's art fascist at that time? One must ask whether there ever was a country that didn't praise itself or its people. Isn't the human striving for godlike perfection, as captured in Riefenstahl's film Olympia, a trait shared by all humans? She achieved the highest form of expression attainable by an artist. Michael Munk Kucirek Odense, Denmark...
...This Olympia, Wash. native DJs worldwide and recently released a new compilation of house music called Funk the System. 10 p.m. $20. Avalon Night Club, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston...