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It’s also rather difficult to rack up the ribbies when the starters in your line-up are as follows: Eric Young/Ray Durham, Jose Cruz, J.T. Snow, Pedro Feliz, Neifi Perez, Marquis Grissom and Benito Santiago...
Daryl Hannah has a potent monologue about giving birth to three children, all of whom succumb to birth defects. Susan Lynch tears your heart out as she imagines passing a snow day in Boston with the child she does not have; her hotel maid (Vanessa Martinez) dreams of the child she gave up for adoption. One speaks Irish-accented English, the other Spanish. They can't understand each other, but they do communicate on some very basic level. Aside from Marcia Gay Harden, above, covering a hard-used life with near sociopathic behavior, the other characters are less well developed...
...counties--and his first campaign for the presidency seemed a total bust. He was in last place in the polls, having once been first. He had literally lost his voice. I remember him sipping boiled water laced with lemon and honey as he trudged door-to-door in the snow. "People were telling me, 'I know I promised to support you, but I think I made a mistake,'" the Congressman told me, with a laugh, over turkey sandwiches in his Iowa campaign office last Friday. "But my mother had always told me to keep steady, don't get too emotional...
Wells lived alone in a small rented white A-frame house, where he did little but tend to his cats, watch rented movies and, in the winter, help his neighbors shovel snow. His take-home pay was usually only a few hundred dollars a week, but the week he died, he made his last regular payment on a loan extended by a friend to help him buy the Geo Metro he drove. He played the lottery regularly and once collected a $250 payout, which he talked about for weeks. A co-worker, Robert Slayton, recalls that Wells' only vice seemed...
...running a massive trade surplus with the U.S. to revalue its currency?and then come home with nothing to show for his trip but soothing waffle. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the target of U.S. ire was Japan; now it's China, from which Treasury Secretary John Snow has just returned with assurances that the Chinese will soon show "flexibility" in their currency policies. For a while, trade tensions with Japan were a focus of U.S. domestic politics and threatened to damage relations with one of Washington's crucial partners. Now some in Congress are already beginning...