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...only the imagery of flaming wreckage littering the Hawaiian landscape, but also the truly haunting sight of warplanes flying so close to the ground that baseball-playing kids and laundry-drying housewives must duck for cover. As the two leading men, Hartnett and Affleck (who character is ridiculously named Rafe) play childhood best friends who happen to be daredevil fighter pilots. They inevitably fall in love with the same woman (Beckinsale), although their romance must take a seat to a backdrop of terrifying destruction. An exploration of emotion, the film looks to be about loss of innocence, both of America...
...politicians, burbling over how to educate the underclass, would do well to stop by Room 56 this week, as Rafe Esquith's fifth-grade class mounts its annual Shakespeare play. There are few costumes--mainly T shirts inscribed with an image of the Bard under the words WILL POWER. Most of Esquith's 29 pupils are classified as gifted or high achievers, but that hardly guarantees success in an environment where poverty and gangsterism are endemic. Some of his incoming students this year "didn't know two times three," he says. "Four of them couldn't write a sentence...
...chapped from giving too many blow jobs; we learn all about her dysfunctional family; and we hear about her Bacchanalian exploits in the Adams House of yore. The book is written as a straight narrative, interspersed with italicized, stream-of-consciousness peeks into Wurtzel's head ("Why hasn't Rafe called he's disappearing he's leaving me like everyone else he promised he wouldn't but he is I know it oh my God I want to die right here right now..."). All of the chapters, with their catchy, rock 'n' roll titles like "Drinking in Dallas" and "Woke...
Such resistance should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the passions unleashed in Washington by the thought of economic sacrifice. "If any of these fuel-tax options were politically easy, we would have done them already," says Rafe Pomerance, a senior associate at the World Resources Institute. Some of the impact could be softened by measures like a cut in the stiff Social Security payroll tax. Even so, if Clinton hopes to pare down the deficit, he will have to persuade voters to share the pain and then stick to his guns against all the opponents that...
...cars, homes and industries of France. While these emissions will stop when the fires are put out, the gas will remain aloft for 100 years. Trying to reduce CO2 output by an equivalent amount will be difficult, even for the world's largest economies, says Rafe Pomerance, a senior associate at Washington's World Resources Institute...