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...former Wall Street bond trader, Rubin remains untroubled by the political conundrum he has created for his bosses Clinton and Al Gore. He spent nearly two hours last Wednesday on the phone with Representative Rob Portman of Ohio, the bill's major Republican sponsor, but the two couldn't bridge what Portman described as their "fundamental philosophical divide." Rubin argues that giving citizens authority over the IRS "raises very serious issues of accountability and conflict of interest." In other words, as another top Administration official put it, "you don't want IRS agents reporting to the chairman of GM." Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WE'LL GET KILLED ON THIS | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

After seeing Rob Becker in all of his balding, beer-bellied caveman glory, it is extremely difficult to reconcile his stage persona with the sweet, slightly self-conscious voice in which he conducts interviews. He talks much more slowly and deliberately than on stage, but is just as engaging and amusing on the topic of his successful show, Defending the Caveman...

Author: By Kamil E. Redmond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Conversation with a Caveman | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...Well, Nico does wear a toupee. And like Boyer in Gaslight, he is a thief of women's affections and inheritances. Coral, at first a mark, proves his accomplice and inspiration. Dumping her two kids in an orphanage and posing as Nico's sister, she prods him to romance, rob and kill his ladies; then the swindlers make sweaty lust in the shed. And why do they do it? "To be together," the lovers say. "United in blood and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE THREE FACES OF EVIL | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...Rob Becker's Defending the Caveman is probably one of the best explorations of the comical and often frustrating relationships between the sexes. It is hilariously funny, yet at the same time makes one think about their own stereotypes of men and women: Are all men really "self-centered, immature, annoyingly incompetent assholes" or is that just one of those things people...

Author: By Kamil E. Redmond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Defending' Stereotypes | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...think it would be a shame to rob Central Square of its individuality, and I think an eight or 10-story building is too big for that space," said Cambridge City Councillor Kathleen L. Born. "Now that Harvard Square is on its way to becoming a mall, Central Square is coming into its own as the heart of Cambridge, and it would be a shame to ruin the neighborhood feeling that...

Author: By Aby. Fung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Woolworth Closing Marks End Of an Era | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

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