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...would have to pay federal income tax for the first time, the working poor and the unemployed would get higher benefits as welfare payments rose to meet mainland levels. Rossello promises that for every new dollar going to Washington, three would return in the form of higher assistance. Senator Ruben Berrios, head of the Independence Party, quips, "It is not a matter of 'Give me statehood or give me death.' It is a matter of 'Give me statehood so I can have more food coupons...
...Darker Shade of Crimson, which debuted two weeks ago, Ruben Navarrette Jr. '89-'90 describes his experiences at Harvard, which range from the arrest of a fellow Mexican-American classmate for armed robbery to the campus response to his questioning of activist Cesar Chavez's ideas...
Also inducted were Professor of Statistics Donald B. Ruben, Alfred Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity Thomas M. Scanlon Jr., Stanton Professor of the First Amendment Frederick Schauer, Lane Professor of Philosophy and of the Classics Gisela Striker, and Professor of Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham...
...Ruben did interrupt the flow of the film when he overplayed the early moments of tension. If the whole audience knows from the start that Culkin plays an undercover killer, then it's none too tricky to produce tense moments auguring imminent disaster. Ruben dwells on each scary mask, toy gun, and childish threat, until Culkin's every mouthful at dinner appears redolent of latent monomania...
Indeed, director Joseph Ruben conspires to keep the spotlight on the young prodigies and off everyone else. The adults (Wendy Crewson, David Morse, Daniel Kelly, and Jaqueline Brooks) are competent and unobtrusive. The filming emphasizes realism and immediacy instead of effects; this reviewer didn't even notice a soundtrack. The direction was notable for its minimalism...