Word: remains
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...polls are close. As Now. 3 approaches, L. Scott Harshbarger '64 and Acting Governor A. Paul Cellucci remain locked in a tight battle for governor. Although their positions are similar on many issues, they have come to verbal blows over the question of how to treat welfare recipients. Harshbarger calls Cellucci's stance "anti-child, anti-woman;" Cellucci accuses Harshbarger of being far too soft on welfare moms and far too liberal with state money. Since they offer very different agendas around this issue, the outcome of this election may have a direct effect on many of Massachusetts...
...mixture of Samuel Beckett, Fellini and Busby Berkeley." West Coast bureau chief Cathy Booth and Denver chief Richard Woodbury approached the story from a business perspective, examining the city's need to attract new visitors. "Every couple of years, Vegas has to come up with something new to remain profitable," Booth says. "Now they're going after the high-end traveler, the baby boomers. This is a market that's never been tapped. They're importing the best shopping, the best hotels and the best chefs." For those still pining for nickel slots and a cheap place to crash, Booth...
...only "sad brutish grobians," but "froward dirty disreputable rough good-for-nothing disorderly ragabashes and raparees." If there is a serious flaw, it is that since the novels are mostly about men, they are probably mostly for men. O'Brian writes good female characters, but mostly they remain ashore (and one of the best, Maturin's flamboyant wife Diana, dies offstage, in a coaching accident, before The Hundred Days begins...
Dreamers like Carman David Gallo remain undaunted. He is a Toronto marketing executive and real estate heir who recently placed a full-page ad in Variety soliciting investors for his as yet unmade film, Princess Diana Saves the World. It is the story of how the dead title character rounds up other "good angels" (including Frank Sinatra and J.F.K.) and staves off global destruction. "Imagine Diana sitting at God's knees like a little girl--that's the first scene," Gallo explains. "This is a monster. This will sink Titanic." He clearly has a vision. I have a vision...
...many communities plagued by teen pregnancies, that's what counts. Says Steve Trombley, president of Planned Parenthood in Chicago: "The word is out in the community about the three-month shot." With nobody wanting to return to the soaring teen-pregnancy rate of old, that word is likely to remain out--at least until even more kids remember the option of simply saying...