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...Congress in part because a majority of them viewed a potential Democratic Congress with Dick Gephardt in the Speaker's chair as too liberal. Also, for the first time, polls have shown that a majority of Americans want government to do less, not more. All told, Americans want to shrink the size of government...
Republicans like Tate (and Dole) have a legitimate complaint here. Democrats, from Clinton on down, found their best issue this year in overstating if not actually fabricating Republican designs to shrink the government. In that sense you could say that this election was indeed "stolen." Claiming the center ground and painting the opposition as extreme is a standard campaign strategy, but it is a game the Republicans have played much better than the Democrats until this year. For the Democrats to play it suddenly with equal success does seem almost like cheating. Two things made this possible. Republicans are happy...
These three are cheerleaders to depressive Mike (Favreau), an actor-comedian who is having trouble getting over a fizzled affair. Six months later, he's still miserable and can't stop talking about it. Each buddy has to be Mike's personal shrink; every potential date becomes his antsy big sister. He can't follow the rules of romantic pursuit. You're not supposed to call someone you've just met until two days have passed; it's uncool. Yet after getting a promising phone number, he rushes home to leave a voice message, half a dozen times, becoming more...
...third alternative, forged among centrist environmentalists, Governor Angus King and the big landowners, emerged in June to blunt both extremes. Under the Compact for Maine's Forests, big timber companies could clear-cut no more than 1% of their land each year, and the maximum allowable clear-cut would shrink from 250 to 75 acres. More important in the long run, they would abide by voluntary standards to preserve sustainable levels of tree harvesting, and protect soil, water and biodiversity. The compact also would create a compliance system managed by independent auditors...
...surprising if men stayed away from The First Wives Club in stadium-size droves. The three screen-grabbing actresses don't just do well by beating their feckless husbands at the money game; they do good by opening a women's crisis center with the proceeds. They do not shrink from campiness, either, as they vamp through a girl-group rendition of You Don't Own Me in the final scene...