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Kaile Shilling and Jeanne Smoot, as the aging sisters Abby and Martha Brewster, maintain a virtually telepathic connection throughout the entire performance. They convey their characters' smothering affections and warped perspectives with uncanny precision. These benevolent murderesses are challenging characters, and Shilling and Smoot carry off their parts with wholehearted conviction...
United States trade representative Mickey Kantor's cautious approach to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in last week's negotiations laid to rest persistent rumors that he was the bastard offspring of Smoot and Hawley...
...else, Clinton's and Kantor's differences with their predecessors are not only political but generational as well. George Bush and his closest advisers were raised in the Great Depression and seared by World War II, and they blamed both calamities in large part on what Bush called "those Smoot-Hawley days" -- a reference to the protectionist 1930 U.S. tariff that crippled the world trading system. Under Bush, says one of his former economic advisers, "the Europeans and Japanese knew that if they held out long enough, we wouldn't retaliate in any serious way, out of fear that...
Jeanne L. Smoot '93-94, who described herself as "surprised, shocked and dismayed," said that when she took a year off from Harvard, she specifically looked forward to patronizing Tommy's on her return...
...hang out [at Tommy's]. You can just be, for long periods of time," Smoot said...