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...who gave movie bad taste a good name finally has his own boxed set, with eight features (The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, To Be or Not to Be, History of the World, Part I and Robin Hood: Men in Tights)--virtually the entire canon, minus The Producers. Most of those are extensions of the genre parodies Brooks and other early-TV geniuses wrote for Sid Caesar. The gags are hit-and-miss, but when they hit, you feel them in your gut. And each film has at least one shining moment, whether...
...fanfare in New Delhi on March 2 may not be dead on arrival, but it has certainly landed with a thud on Capitol Hill. Even though it is too early to tell whether opponents will build enough momentum to block the landmark agreement, what's already striking is how silent-and unenthusiastic-Congress seems over an agreement the Bush Administration hails as critical for cementing a strategic alliance with the world's largest democracy...
...proposing to block tax money from funding the war in Iraq. McGovern also spoke at length about his frustration with the duplicity of politicians in Washington. “My definition of patriotism is to say what you believe,” McGovern said. “To be silent is not patriotism, but moral cowardice.” Student reaction to McGovern was generally positive, and he earned some laughs after a few jokes and criticisms of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. However, it was Patrick’s message that McGovern wanted those in attendance...
...then move carefully over the dazzlingly white claypan, its surface cracked like china and scattered with cinnamon-colored sand, placing a stocking on each print to shield it from the weather. "How our people survived," says Mary Pappin Sr., "is all written here in these sands." Around her the silent dunes crouch in the sun - guardians, perhaps, of still more extraordinary secrets...
...made an excellent point: in the ongoing “clash of values” between Massachusetts and the Catholic Church over adoption by gays and lesbians: the interests of the State’s vulnerable children in need of adoption—the silent third party to this feud—should not be overlooked. Nevertheless, I write to point out a course of action the piece’s authors overlooked—one that would allow the state to avoid this dilemma altogether. Massachusetts could amend its tax laws to revoke the favored tax status of private...