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...remain a few wild cards-including a couple of lawsuits the City Council recently filed against Menino, Davis-Mullen’s potentially strong support from Boston parents and teachers, and the councillor’s widely-recognized ability to show up the mayor in public speaking-chances are slim that the challenger can actually...
...large number of people who have been pleasantly surprised by Bush’s performance is the nation’s incredibly low expectation for his administration. Based on his apparent lack of intellectual rigor and extremely narrow victory in the election, the prospect for effective government seemed rather slim. During his campaign, Bush made a number of embarrassing gaffes ranging from the grammatical to the geographical. Therefore these polls, as much as anything, reflect a general level of relief that nothing has happened yet to sever foreign trade or entangle America in a deadly...
...movies displayed the Japanese as an alien people, with a culture as remote and, in the old phrase, inscrutable as Mars. Hayakawa was the movies' first ambassador from this remote empire. In 1915 he played an Eastern dude in Western garb in Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat. All slim smiles and secret sneers, he seduces gullible Fannie Ward with a private loan; later he drops his suavity, attacking and then, gosh, branding...
...Jesus noted, the last shall be first. After only a year on the market, a slim inspirational text called The Prayer of Jabez, written by an evangelist based in Atlanta, Bruce Wilkinson, and published by a tiny firm in Sisters, Ore., has sold a Grisham-like 3.5 million copies and advanced this week to No. 1 on the New York Times Advice, How-to & Miscellaneous best-sellers list--even though the Times does not count books sold in religious bookstores. Says Lynn Garrett, religion editor at Publishers Weekly: "It's a raging success, and I think it's going...
...morning stop at 11 a.m. with the class known popularly as "Nazi" is not quite as horrible as it sounds. Foreign Cultures 76: "Mass Culture in Nazi Germany: The Power of Images and Illusions" is one of the most well-liked classes in the notoriously slim pickings of the Foreign Cultures Core requirement...