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...Miami Rhapsody" won't change your views on market inflation or oppression of the impoverished classes. But it's humorous, witty, slice-of-life, we-can-work-it-out-honey take on romance (and it's strategically-timed Valentine's Dayish release) makes it the perfect film to see with a significant other who's been slightly cold ever since you ditched him or her to head for the sourcebook line...
Meanwhile, more capable Russian military reinforcements were streaming into Chechnya to join the 40,000 draftees struggling to take the capital. Crack marine units and front-line troops arrived from the North Sea Fleet and Kaliningrad -- the slice of Russia between Poland and Lithuania -- while soldiers and even sailors were flown in from Vladivostok in the far east...
Saturday night at the Cheesecake Factory in Atlanta: the restaurant is packed with customers waiting up to an hour and a half to stuff themselves with slices of fat-laden cheesecake so thick that most will be forced to take home a doggy bag. A half-pound slice of cheesecake may contain 700 calories -- roughly a third of an adult's recommended daily allowance.Manager Michael Moore notes that the Factory's reduced-calorie cheesecakes languished on the shelves when they were introduced last year. "If people want cheesecake, they don't want 'lite,"' he says. "They come to our restaurant...
...back to the states is an evasion in a cruder sense as well. They propose bundling the money now being spent on various federal programs (like food stamps) into "block grants" for the states to spend as they please. But, in the process of bundling, the Republicans propose to slice up to 20% off the total, on the unproved assumption that the states can deliver equivalent services that much more efficiently...
...camp, which includes deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes and possibly adviser-in-chief Hillary Rodham Clinton, wants the President to consolidate his party base. If that means dwelling on civil rights, abortion rights and labor issues, it's probably an agenda that would appeal to a too narrow slice of the ever more conservative electorate. As a rough blueprint for post-apocalypse strategy, White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, with the help of several other top aides, produced a memo one described as a "thought piece." The memo proposed that the President should attempt to govern from...