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Cast at the last minute (after Meg Ryan left to make another American-twit-abroad epic, French Kiss), Arquette can do little but whine and pine in an impossible role. And the film simply forfeits belief with its notion that Laura, who stumbles through Burma like a girl in a monster movie after she's seen the giant ants, is a physician. She hardly seems smart enough to be a patient...
...raise $8 million to buy and preserve the land, an effort that is stalled in city bureaucracy. In Douglas County, Colorado, a fast-growing Denver exurb, some locals have formed the Pinery Coalition to oppose a bid by the Great Gulf Group of Companies to build houses on a pine-studded local hillside and potentially raise the number of residences from 1,900 to 2,700. "My kids are already in full classes," frets Brenda Mason, a spokeswoman for the local homeowners' association. "There's no place for more children...
...Italianate Victorian house has an entry hall; a grand living room with fireplace, interior shutters, bay windows, wide pine floors; a dining room with original plaster moldings and formal French doors opening to the deck and gardens; and a modern chef's kitchen with oak floors and an arched ceiling...
Pity the Republican candidates. in this presidential campaign, they will be spending less time plying the pine-smelling living rooms of New Hampshire or enjoying the watery coffee of Iowa diners. Instead, they will be tramping through the fevered political swamp of Florida, where they will have to contend with issues like Fidel, the Gaza Strip and Medicare, Part B. That's because, now that Senator Robert Dole has spooked his opponents into believing he's invincible on the early New England and Midwestern turf, Florida -- with its Hispanic, Jewish and elderly voting blocs -- is emerging as the must...
...Adriatic and heard O'Grady's radio signal. My heart was pounding along with Marine Sergeant Major Angel Castro's after the successful chopper rescue. I made the helicopter ride of a lifetime with Marines Paul Bruce and Michael Pevear. And finally, I too smelled the cypress and pine trees of the Dalmatian coast. It made me feel great. Joe Raymond Long Beach, California...