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...Affleck is two days away from marrying nice Maura Tierney (c'mon now, who wouldn't want to marry Maura Tierney?) when he meets kookissima Sandra Bullock on a very bumpy plane ride. She plays one of those "irresistible" hysterics who love life so ferociously their hugs would smother it at birth. This romantic comedy is just as pushy, and a disaster. All its desperate plot maneuvers (Ben and Sandra making like Tarzan on a train roof) can't give the film wit; all the slo-mo sleet, rain and confetti can't give it style...
...will it work? An estimated 12.4 million firearms are sold in the U.S. each year, and critics fear the new system will smother under the load. Moreover, say gun opponents, the state databases that feed the the system are incomplete. Critics say that worst of all the system doesn't impose a waiting period to give impulsive gun buyers a chance to cool off.The FBI, of course, is aiming to prove the doubters wrong -- it's hiring more than 500 people to help run the system. The holiday season should be a trial by fire...
Yale responded 13 minutes later in the 26thminute with an attack that culminated in juniorNeill Guilbert lofting a soft shot over Dupuis,who was charging to try and smother a possible lowshot. The ball rolled, untouched by the Crimsondefense, into the goal to give Yale a 2-1 lead...
...uncertain. Prospects for economic reform are bleak. Whether or not Yeltsin remains in office, power will be in the hands of Viktor Chernomyrdin's unlikely coalition of technocrats, Communists and tycoons. That new administration plans to revive price controls and other Soviet-era economic mechanisms that may well smother what's left of the county's infant entrepreneurship...
Seymour Hersh is an investigative journalist only as long as his inquiries fit the prior conclusions he has reached. His recipe for writing: boil down some quotes from murky sources, add a few references to obscure documents, smother with one's own exalted theories and half bake. PHIL LEVY Danvers, Mass...