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Daryl Hannah has a potent monologue about giving birth to three children, all of whom succumb to birth defects. Susan Lynch tears your heart out as she imagines passing a snow day in Boston with the child she does not have; her hotel maid (Vanessa Martinez) dreams of the child she gave up for adoption. One speaks Irish-accented English, the other Spanish. They can't understand each other, but they do communicate on some very basic level. Aside from Marcia Gay Harden, above, covering a hard-used life with near sociopathic behavior, the other characters are less well developed...
Republican Senator Arlen Specter, who has angered conservatives by opposing big tax cuts and being pro-choice, now has the "RINO hunters" on his trail. RINO stands for "Republicans in Name Only"--meaning moderate Republicans, who are the target of a zealous but increasingly potent group of conservatives called the Club for Growth. Bankrolled mainly by business supply-siders who hate taxes and Big Government, the club gave $10 million in 2002 to back conservative G.O.P. candidates in 26 House and Senate races across the country. In 2004 the club hopes to raise $15 million for 30 conservatives, mostly...
...recent weeks, though, the tortoise has begun to stir. Gephardt had strong performances in the first two presidential debates--and last week he chose a quiet Friday afternoon to take a roundhouse swing at Dean on the ancient but still potent issues of Social Security and Medicare. In each case, he used a most un-Gephardtian quality to drive his point home: a flushed, sputtering anger...
...Hawks’ Alon Lubezky proved particularly potent against a battered Crimson defense, scoring two goals and assisting on a third. The junior forward was last week’s American East Player of the Week and leads Hartford with 17 points—10 ahead of Kenniel Martin...
...Harvard defense suffocated the Black Bears’ once-potent attack, allowing few good looks at the goal and forcing several long-range, easy to handle shots that never threatened the net or the lead...