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...road, we are sooner or later going to come to accusations about teenage flings with farm animals. In a tightly contested congressional race taking place in a rural district, the challenger just might dredge up one of the incumbent's high school classmates who, still embittered by some perceived slight in 11th grade, is willing to go to the local newspaper with an unflattering portrait of what the now august Congressman was like at 17: "Why, we used to say he would have shown up at the junior prom with a sheep if he'd been able to find...
According to Cambridge Police Department records, liquor law violations have remained relatively steady, seeing a slight increase from 1996 to 1997. Police reported 16 offenses in the first half of this year, up one from the same period last year...
...boosted Asian visibility this year: in California, Republican Senate candidate Matt Fong, the taciturn state treasurer, has pulled into a dead heat with Democrat Barbara Boxer; and in a hotly contested race for the House seat in Oregon's First Congressional District, Taiwanese-born lawyer David Wu holds a slight lead over Republican Molly Bordonaro. Nationally, the number of elected Asian or Pacific Americans at all levels has grown to 2,000 in 33 states--a 10% increase since...
...generate much critical dialogue, to the point that his New York School peers John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler have out-grown him as literary figures. He is too prominent a participant in literary history to be thought of as only a minor poet, but too slight a critical icon to be considered a major one. It's strange--even after winning the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1995 and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize in 1996, Koch still seems to be a poet whose presence on the literary scene is undermatched by the attention paid...
...hard to see why Streep wanted the role as Kate Gulden. For one thing, she gets to do another accent. (This time, it's a sweet mothery voice that seems deliberately constructed to contrast with Zellwegger's slight poutiness.) She also makes the most of juicy monologues where she not only pours out her soul, but also gives us a devastating and unglamorous portrait of a woman rendered helpless by the ravages of disease. But Streep avoids the overacting bug. She never gives us more than what Kate really is--a mother who knows nothing else but the instinct...