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...Bush does become President, Cheney will almost certainly have the most substantial portfolio of any Vice President in history--bigger even than Gore's. Bush's propensity to delegate authority, his confidence in Cheney and the sheer breadth of his running mate's experience help ensure that Cheney would have a leading role in everything from staffing and running the White House and federal agencies to directing foreign and defense policy to negotiating with Congress. And the 50-50 split between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate would turn the Vice President's largely ceremonial role as president...
...inventor of the modern essay. Montaigne, a Catholic whose mother was a Jew, lived squarely in the middle of the religious wars, yet managed to survive them handsomely and even to be a friend to Henri of Navarre and Henri of Guise, not out of duplicity but out of sheer decency...
...with fluff like You've Got Mail, and while she is hardly in the same league as heavyweights like Kate Winslet and Julianne Moore, her acting does have a deceptive rawness to it. Crowe, meanwhile, is as skilled as any actor comes-his ability to balance dramatic range with sheer physicality is virtually unmatched and his screen presence here is utterly commanding. But in the end, the greatest accomplishment may belong to Morse, the veteran character actor and former St. Elsewhere stalwart, who takes a potentially thankless role and goes through a De Niroesque transformation to lend the character...
...need to address that fan letter you were about to send, or write, or think about writing, as I'm sure one of you must have been. No need, because Robert Goulet has beaten you to it, saying in a letter last October that I am "a sheer delight." He then added, "Can we meet, and can you just let me hang out and listen and observe?" For those of you who have never got a mash note from a Broadway star, let me inform you that Goulet letters are not sent through the U.S. mail but are inserted into...
...vandalism" in defacing billboards or the place of street art vis--vis advertising. My point is simply that a marvel which requires years of effort from thousands of volunteers should be considered as much a marvel of organization as of mimetic contagion. What's curious is simply the sheer amount of will that goes into making a cultural phenomenon: a lesson for seniors who want to change the world...