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Along with the growth in business has been a huge increase in human traffic, meaning that Kendall is bustling from Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p. m. but quiet after 6 p.m. and most of the weekend. And so most restaurants and shops are not open in the evening or on the weekends...
...McCain hang himself. "Amazing!" declared a delighted senior Bushie. "McCain is self-immolating. Why do anything but watch?" Although they have insisted all along that they had nothing to do with Robertson's phone calls on Bush's behalf, they sent out the message through surrogates that Robertson should quiet down, stay off TV and off the attack. "It's the first time in the history of Christian Fundamentalism that Jerry Falwell has said 'No comment' two days running," quipped Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. And when Falwell did finally respond, it was simply...
...ideological purity. But when he went too far and called the mullahs evil, he allowed the Texans to whisper once more that McCain was simply not steady enough to carry the flag for his or any other party. All Bush needed to do was persuade his team to quiet down, quote Scripture, turn the other cheek and hope McCain would hang himself...
...most important reason for e's quick and recent spread into places like Denver and Sacramento is that professional criminals have almost completely assumed control of its trade. The life of a typical tablet found in the U.S. begins somewhere along the Dutch-Belgian border, a quiet region of pig farmers. The setting is rural but not far from the Brussels airport. Manufacturers convert abandoned barns or garden sheds into e factories, which can be filthy. "They've been mixing chemicals in dirty cans I wouldn't even use for garbage," says Charles De Winter, director of the drug section...
...uneven but worthwhile film is less about sex than its aftermath. In "1961," Vanessa Redgrave, whose lover of 50 years has died, meets the woman's nephew, arrived to dispose of the house he's inherited and clueless about the lifestyle of his "maiden aunt." Redgrave deftly sketches the quiet hell of a woman unable to share her grief for her "friend" with the unwitting in-laws. A butch townie (Chloe Sevigny of Boys Don't Cry) in "1972" rattles her college-student lover's gay-feminist pals, for whom short hair means gender treachery, but the daring setup devolves...