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...Zurg, you killed my mother!" screams an animated Buzz Lightyear as he battles the evil emperor on top of a descending elevator shaft. And after ages of waiting for Zurg to speak and declare his intentions to rule supreme over the universe, Buzz holds his breath. "Noooo," answers Zurg in his guttural robonics, "I am your father." Cut to: Zurg and Buzz Lightyear playing with whiffleballs on the side of a highway. And so the wonderful world of Pixar rolls merrily along...
...examine what the Republican Party would be losing if they let Pat Buchanan leave through a few of his most recent and salient points that have put him in the newspapers. He has claimed that "non-Jewish whites.... get the shaft" at Harvard where Jews and Asians represent disproportionate percentages of the student body compared to national levels. In his recently published book "A Republic, Not an Empire," Buchanan questions America's involvement in World War II. It makes you wonder, what are the Republican Party and Bush so afraid of losing...
...with a red beard and red hair and fierce china-blue eyes. His father took him out of school when he was 14 to apprentice him to a butcher. He is self-educated, and he reads all the time when he's not drinking or down the shaft. His literary range is wider than that of most educated Americans I've met, and he talks beautifully. His father was a Stalinist union organizer, and though John is no longer a communist--few miners are; they're too solitary and anarchic by temperament--he movingly speaks of the kinship...
MOTIVATION the Shaft aesthetic...
...particularly popular industry, given the propensity to insult the planet in order to get at ores. And this is not a particularly good time to be in the mining business, what with the price of commodities bouncing off all-time lows. Freeport's profits have gone down the shaft, with earnings off 33% in its last quarter, to $129 million. Perhaps that's one reason why Moffett and other senior executives skipped the company's annual meeting last month. Certainly he's used to confrontation, having had to deal with vociferous environmental and social activists who in years past have...