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...will receive. The figure usually mentioned is $23 million, but whether that will come in a lump sum or an annual dole has yet to be haggled over. Last week the senior royals--the Queen and Prince Charles--attended the memorial ceremony for the Gulf War dead. The regal phalanx was secondary news as papers devoted pages to Diana's latest crisis. That sort of snub inspires the kind of resentment that dies hard among people who expect celebrity treatment even though they would choke on the word...
Though Yeltsin may personify the post-Soviet era, all the elements of a successful politburo-style road show were in place: the mink-hatted acolytes, the handpicked entourage of veterans, the phalanx of sullen, gray-coated security agents. But as Yeltsin delivered his rambling speech, it was apparent that something had gone awry. One moment he was pledging to save Russia from a new Bolshevik revolution, the next he was suggesting that female employees of a local chocolate factory pair off with single military cadets. When he finally wound down, the lackluster applause demonstrated all too clearly that even...
...enough to balance the budget over seven years. Why are Republicans now exaggerating these differences, letting go a Big Deal, which would by any measure be a huge achievement? Some blame the freshmen, who are said to prefer no deal to a "bad" deal. Yet one freshman admits their phalanx is in disarray, anxious over tough Medicare votes they've cast with nothing as yet to show for them. They huddled last Saturday to ponder which outcome best serves their principles--and politics. Centrists in both parties kept up the hunt for enough votes on the Big Deal to inspire...
This year, though, a lot more people are paying to see that once endangered species, women's pictures--and not always out of a sense of sacrifice. The summer movie season, usually a men-only province, was commandeered by a phalanx of women: teen dream Alicia Silverstone (Clueless), lonely heartthrob Sandra Bullock (While You Were Sleeping and The Net), ex-Marine schoolteacher Michelle Pfeiffer (Dangerous Minds) and a feminist princess named Pocahontas. Right now, with How to Make an American Quilt, Now and Then and Home for the Holidays, the plexes are awash in sisterhood cinema. And male moviegoers aren...
...Sunday, the actual anniversary of the passage of the legislation, a phalanx of Clinton Administration officials will travel to Independence, Mo. to celebrate the program's success...