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...scrawny man on the tiny log raft, drenched with salt spray and flailing on the oars, is learning the meaning of the word breakers. Most weeks, the beefy, cream-capped, electric-blue waves cresting over the reef carry hard-core surfers from around the world. But this morning they have a different job: to kick Tom Hanks' bony, tan butt...
...talk about the weight loss, which bores Hanks no end. "All it is is time and discipline," he says. "It's like, 'How do you get to work every day?' 'Well, first I take the 405...'" Still, you can't not notice it as he stretches on his raft like a leathery strip of celebrity jerky. The analogies leap up unbidden. Jesus? The Unabomber on hunger strike? Later, as we watch playbacks--a tight shot of a drenched Hanks rolling his eyes--Zemeckis offers another. "It's Moses! You're talking to God!" Hanks laughs at his woebegone image...
...first time in years, the nation's 25 million small-business owners feel they have a stake in the outcome next November. It doesn't happen often, but this presidential-election year features a raft of issues affecting their pocketbooks. Some, like the minimum wage, are perennials; others, like Internet taxes, are brand new. All, however, pose dramatic changes in the way small companies do business, take care of their employees and pay Uncle Sam. Here's a sampling of the leading issues Washington hands are wrangling over...
...rule. Klein's first novel managed to survive the gimmickry of its initial publication. It was released, as the world will recall, under the byline Anonymous, making Guess the Author a favorite parlor game along the Washington-Manhattan media axis. With its deft plotting, crackling dialogue and a raft of engaging characters, thinly veiled and drawn from real life, Primary Colors remains an essential document of the Clinton...
...stereotypes of Harvard advising call to mind a leaky life raft with no oars. First-years are told not to expect any help when they pass through the gates of the Yard...