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...president came out and said it Monday night: taxes on the middle class will go up. Clinton quickly coated this bitter pill with the fact that 70 percent of new revenues will come from those earning more than $100,000. But the indisputable call for middle class tax increases, along with the persistent rumors of a planned energy tax, signal that reality has sunk in at the White House...
Those students who suspect their usual diet of chickwiches and french fries may be low in certain nutrients can find vitamins and minerals in the form of pill supplements on store shelves But Sonnenberg emphasizes the diet as the main supplier...
Tokyo, pulverized in 1996 by an amuck scientific experiment (Is there any other kind?), is in 2019 a place of repressive political reactionaries, marauding radicals and pill-popping motorcycle freebooters who do motorized combat with each other on the ramps of the city's elevated roadways. In this story, the motorcyclers are the good guys, mainly because everyone else is worse. The technocrats capture one teen and try to turn him into a human receptacle for some kind of higher-energy field (Is there any other kind?). Things go haywire. He menaces his old buddies, threatens to reduce the entire...
...Broadway-style comedy. It begins with a group grope and ends with a kiss. It is underscored with dreamy, pertinent Gershwin songs (Fascinating Rhythm, Embraceable You, They Can't Take That Away from Me). And it considers, with a wisdom born of irreverence, a genteel old dilemma. Until the pill, a threat of pregnancy ; loomed over any nice young man who considered having sex with someone he loved. Now especially for gay men, the threat is death. "Sex wasn't meant to be 'safe,' " Jeffrey says. "Or negotiated. Or fatal." But there's no sense moping, as a gay priest...
...became clear to NBC that its only chance of keeping Letterman was to dump Leno as Tonight host and give Letterman the job -- something NBC executives had publicly ruled out. What's more, a "poison pill" in Letterman's CBS contract made the 11:30 time period a virtual sine qua non of any deal. The CBS contract promised Letterman a $50 million penalty payment if his show was not aired at 11:30. Since NBC, to keep Letterman, was required to match CBS's monetary deal, it would have had to include the same penalty payment -- effectively forcing...