Word: reliefs
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...action to offset the unusually long running time. As the film progresses, the tone remains predominantly serious (befitting a story set on Death Row), interspersed with lighter scenes of optimism and hope. Edgecomb's urinary problems, painful as they are to watch, provide a small degree of comic relief, but the main source of smiles comes in the form of a mouse named Mr. Jingles. The curious mouse, discovered on the floor of the Green Mile by the guards, becomes the pet of one of the inmates, Eduard Delacroix (Michael Jeter). The image of a convicted killer giggling uncontrollable over...
...virtues are best seen in relief to its vicious peers. New York's subway, at least, is similarly musical. The musicians inside the subway itself are rare--and rarely any good--but more important is the potential for a New York subway ride to become a veritable sing-along. There, one can actually "Take the A Train," and it's great fun to sing the "Welcome Back Kotter" theme song while entering Brooklyn. The trouble, of course, is the bevy of thugs (meaner than Vinny Barbarino) and wayward youth who scare timid passengers, especially tourists, into silent submission. Nevertheless...
...primary caregiver relief program gives a semester of full-time teaching relief or a year of half-time teaching relief. The Faculty will also extend teaching contracts for up to two years for junior faculty who must care for their children...
...anxiety relief beyond breathing into a lunch bag or picturing your interviewers in their skivvies, look no further. This week FM chronicles a voyage to New York City, where three FM bloodhounds did the deed with some young, hotshot I-bankers and consultants. Their question: What exactly do these guys...
...ready for the coming of a kinder, gentler Ronald Reagan. The evidence: a bold tax plan that puts his money where his "compassionate conservatism" sound bite is, tempering supply-side Reaganomics with aid to the working poor. It includes a $1.3 trillion tax cut over 10 years, with extra relief to poor families. The plan received a conservative blessing Wednesday in the form of a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, which said "the Bush plan at least moves in the Reagan direction and realizes that taxpayers who built the current boom need incentives to keep it going." Bush...