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...lifers or serving sentences so long they will never get out. America has embraced vengeance as its criminal-justice philosophy. People don't want solutions to crime, they only want to feel good. That is what politicians are doing, they're making people feel secure. They offer them a platter of vindictiveness...
Take David Cross, for example, the 29-year-old comic from Los Angeles whose version of Ecclesiastes is unfamiliar to most readers of the Bible. Cross's blasphemy and his predilection for overly evocative images ("A great big steaming platter of baby kittens" springs to mind) don't seem suitable for a vehicle on ABC called, say, Cross My Heart. Nor does Lea DeLaria seem quite ready for her own show. She begins her act by announcing, "It's the 1990s and it's hip to be queer and I'm a big dyke." As David Tochterman, vice president...
...Critics of Congress have a point when they say the legislature has eviscerated the President's constitutional veto power by submitting gigantic, combination-platter spending bills, often at the last minute. The President then has a Hobson's choice of signing on to the whole thing or shutting down the government. The line-item veto, which 43 Governors (including the Governor of Arkansas) have in one form or another, would give the President authority to approve or disapprove individual spending proposals. It would also, thereby, deny him the luxury of blaming Congress for excessive spending...
This recording also marks a departure for Feltsman. When he arrived in the U.S. in 1987, everything was handed to him on a silver platter: hailed as a "hero of the human spirit" by Ronald Reagan, he was offered debut performances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, a busy concert schedule, an $80,000-a-year teaching job at the State University of New York at New Paltz and a recording contract with Sony Classical. The recording contract, however, turned out to be a Faustian bargain: the pianist was expected to concentrate on the powerhouse Russian composers -- Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky...
...Jumbo Seafood Platter is a deep-fried mix of scallops, shrimp, clams, calamari and fish. And Skipjack's features poached, smoked, grilled, broiled or pateed salmon...