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...without naming any alternative revenue source. To the applause of some onlookers and the horror of others, Engler took them up on it, promising to find some way to make up the money. Until the vote last week affirmed his method, the possibility loomed that public education in Michigan, penniless, might screech to a halt -- along with Engler's political career...
Complaints like one last week from Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell about Russia's "neo-imperial ambitions" provoke ferocious indignation in Moscow, particularly among those who feel Russia has been left standing penniless and irrelevant at the edge of the world stage. "People are sick of the Puerto Rico-ization of Russian foreign policy," says Vladlen Sirotkin of Moscow's Diplomatic Institute. "For too long, we have kept the West under the impression that a positive foreign policy is when we go along with everything the West does...
Every black artist, or most of them who came to prominence, who are their managers, who are their agents? Does the agent have the talent or the artist? But who reaps the benefits? Come on. We die penniless and broke, but somebody else is sucking from us. Who surrounds Michael Jackson...
...script by Robert Getchell, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, contains some elisions and some dramatic heightening, but nothing outrageous. It opens with a young Toby (nicely played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his mother Caroline (Ellen Barkin) adrift in the West in the 1950s, looking for work. She's penniless, on the run from a broken marriage and an inappropriate lover. She has a good heart but not a very sensible one, and she falls in with Dwight Hansen (Robert De Niro), an auto mechanic from dreary Concrete, Washington...
Around the editors' table, you can almost hear the jaws drop. At 50, Roddick may be Britain's best-known female entrepreneur --famed for having transformed herself from a penniless hippie to one of the five richest women in England -- but she still takes some getting used to. The darling of London's City in the 1980s (she was named Business Woman of the Year in 1985), a favorite of the royal family (awarded an Order of the British Empire in 1988), a tireless + promoter of worthy causes (from development in poor countries to preservation of rain forests...