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...That, anyway, is the conclusion to be drawn from two new indie films opening today in New York and, a little later, around the country. In the just-OK Married Life, a cheating husband schemes to be permanently rid of his longtime wife. Snow Angels, the one you should track down, has nothing but unhappy marriages, some of them slowly, painfully, disintegrating, and one ready to blow...
...Clinton loaded her speeches with a laundry list of policy promises: to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement; provide universal health coverage; restore manufacturing, with an emphasis on new jobs providing clean energy; get rid of "every single tax break" that rewards companies for sending jobs overseas; abolish the No Child Left Behind program; forgive college debt for students who agree to do public service; reduce gas prices, in part by taking a tougher line with the Saudis; take better care of veterans; begin pulling troops out of Iraq. She boasted of the endorsements she has received from retired...
...right, I'm still glad he's running. It's important for people who feel they're not being heard to have the option to vote for insane, incapable candidates. Only new parties can break us out of dangerous paradigms. It was a recently formed third party that got rid of slavery, after all. That's because a two-party system is designed to eliminate extreme ideas--the Dennis Kuciniches, Mike Gravels, Ron Pauls and Tom Tancredos--much like the first few episodes of American Idol. The parties quickly get us down to two choices that we find acceptable...
...prospect plainly upsetting to Washington. "President Musharraf has done exactly that which he said he was going to do. He said he'd hold elections, he said he would get rid of his emergency law. And so it's now time for the newly elected folks to show up and form their government," President Bush said during a news conference in Ghana this week. "The question then is, 'Will they be friends of the United States?' and I certainly hope...
...House, whose dining hall will stop putting out trays on Thursdays during the month of February, say it will reduce waste by forcing students to take less food at a time. In the end, the argument goes, undergraduates will learn about the true cost of unfinished food. But getting rid of trays—a move that effectively puts a very small price on eating more than a few plates worth of food—doesn’t come close to addressing the root of the problem. Students don’t consider the costs of their meals because...