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...today. At a time when Hanoi has three times as many TV sets, per capita, as Tokyo, farmers in the countryside are still struggling to get by on $5 a month. Behind the hard data, though, lies a more stirring story about reconciliation on both sides of the fence. Pete Peterson, a POW for six years in Hanoi, returned to the country as U.S. ambassador in 1997 and quickly ingratiated himself with its people by riding around town on his motor scooter and marrying a Vietnamese woman...
With the award, he joined illustrious company—before him, it had gone to John Updike ’54, Bonnie Raitt ’72, Pete Seeger ’40 and Jack Lemmon...
...answer is buried deep in the tangle that is California's energy crisis. Here's how it started: Back in 1996, lobbied by Enron and other energy interests, the state (under then Governor Pete Wilson, a Republican) decided to loosen its hold on electricity production. Responsibility for matching supply and demand was handed over in 1998 to an Independent System Operator (ISO), which would buy from providers (like Enron, Calpine and Dynegy) and sell to middlemen (companies like Pacific Gas & Electric) as necessary, even paying providers to take excess electricity out of the state at times when supplies were flush...
...those who count mental illness among their personal battles, parity legislation isn't just about making health care more accessible, it's about making patients feel less ashamed of having mental health problems. Sen. Pete Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, spoke with CNN after the President's speech Monday. "We want to get rid of the stigma so there's no more discrimination," he says. Domenici, whose daughter suffers from mental illness, is a sponsor of the Senate bill...
Unfortunately clunky writing sinks Life. In particular, screenwriter John Scott Shepherd (Joe Somebody) has a cringe-worthy habit of using dialogue for exposition (“Remember when this happened? You know, right after Dad died?”). A conversation gimmick between Pete and Lanie that is cute at first becomes tired and lame by the fifth or sixth time it is repeated. Furthermore, with its uneven pacing, awkward dialogue, spotty acting and skeletal characters, this American Beauty wannabe fails everywhere the 1999 film succeded...