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...Potent lobbies for the elderly soon found an ally in Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman of California. "Senior citizens didn't create the deficit, and they shouldn't be forced to pay for it," he argued. "The elderly are being told they should bear the burden so that we don't have to raise taxes on the very wealthy...
These days Ms. Fisher is needling the world with several potent concoctions. A movie adaptation of her best-selling snort-and-chortle novel, Postcards from the Edge, has opened big. It features Fisher's screenplay directed by Mike Nichols, with Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine as the star-worn daughter and mother. There is also a new paperback edition of her novel to add to the media jet stream. And Fisher's lovelorn modern romance, Surrender the Pink, has just been published...
Judging that at last it was possible to publish practically anything in his homeland, Solzhenitsyn finally spoke out from his home in Cavendish, Vt. Opening his piece with the potent words "The death knell has sounded for Communism," he dismissed the years of "noisy perestroika" as a waste that brought about an "ugly, fake, election system" with just one goal: preserving the Communists' power. Arguing that the Soviet empire "sucks all juices" from the Russian heartland, Solzhenitsyn called for the creation of a Slavic state comprising the republics of Russia, the Ukraine, Belorussia and the northern parts of Kazakhstan, which...
...firm rhetoric, fluently delivered after four rehearsals and some coaching from image maven Roger Ailes, radiated statesmanship. A compromise, he maintained, was needed not only for the country's economic health but also to permit the U.S. "to function effectively as a great power abroad" -- a potent argument at a time when 100,000 U.S. soldiers are in harm's way in Saudi Arabia. If the negotiations stopped, Bush said, he would demand a decisive vote by Sept. 28 on a comprehensive Administration package. If that failed, he warned, the Gramm-Rudman sequester would ravage public services...
However, despite Yale's recent offensive drought, Getman anticipates a potent Yale front line...