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...your one dream is that your children will have better opportunities because they will have a better education." But that won't happen without competition, Dole argues. Parents, he says, should be given vouchers for use at any school they want, including private and parochial institutions. That idea (which Roman Catholic voters love) is constitutionally dubious, but that's not why Clinton rejects...
Emma Thompson has the sense to inquire. Does director Mike Nichols have the sensibility to hire? Word is out that casting for an upcoming screen version of the potboiling political roman a clef Primary Colors may soon begin. Thompson seeks the Hillary Clinton role, while Tom Hanks is angling to play Bill Clinton. Surely there's a role somewhere for Anonymous...
...moral universe infinitely more complex and compromised than the white hats vs. the black hats so typical of the genre. The novel asks not only who is trying to murder Brossard but also why Brossard has been able to remain in France for 44 years, receiving asylum from various Roman Catholic monasteries, and a 1971 presidential pardon for the crimes he committed during the German occupation and the Vichy regime...
...Olympic competition, although Aileen did return to the '28 Games in Amsterdam as one of the guides for Knute Rockne's overseas cruise for football coaches. Indeed, Aileen seems to have led many lives. She became one of America's first female sportswriters. She danced for Busby Berkeley in Roman Scandals. She skated in a Sonja Henie movie and performed in the first Aquacade for Billy Rose, husband of her friend and fellow mermaid, Eleanor Holm...
...telltale substances in a salt clinched the new finding: tartaric acid and resin from the terebinth tree. Tartaric acid occurs in large amounts only in grapes, and terebinth resin was a wine preservative used all over the ancient Near East up through Roman times...