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...These are the post-Clinton political seas into which George W. Bush will launch the $1.3 trillion across-the-board tax cut that was first conceived by the Bushites to sink Steve Forbes in New Hampshire. It's a tough sell. Voters would take a tax cut - who doesn't want more money? - but the size scares them. Republicans have always depended on tax cuts, but know that the size makes them vulnerable to getting out-empathized by Democrats. And Democrats know that Bill Clinton gave small, feel-good targeted tax cuts a very good name...
Family Man is a film that's fun to argue with. But at the end you may surrender to its Wonderful Life portrait of middle-class coping, and to Cage's poignant anguish. His features crumble, his shoulders sink under the burden of a strong man's perplexity...
...been catapulted into this [the Hogwarts experience], and he operates on a need-to-know basis only. He doesn't really want to go looking things up. The whole thing is very surreal to Harry. He copes in a very different way from Hermione--he's sort of sink-or-swim, I'll just deal with it minute to minute, which is possibly a more boyish way of coping, rather than go over and over all the angles, as I think a lot of young girls...
...Manhattan. Who'd want to leave misery in the 'burbs? "Family Man" is a film that's fun to argue with. But at the end you may surrender to its "Wonderful Life" portrait of middle-class coping, and to Cage's poignant anguish. His features crumble, his shoulders sink under the burden of a strong man's perplexity...
Harvard does not play until Saturday this week, so the squad will have a lot of time to sink its teeth into some game tape and new offensive schemes...