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...days, is it a critic's brain that goes soft, or just the movies he's paid to see? At this time of year, all films start blending into one: something about a comic book superhero with arrested-development issues who saves the world while making pee-pee jokes. Produced by Judd Apatow...
...relic of flying's more glamorous past; most of the airlines now charge for checked luggage; and many of them have, more quietly, raised the fees they charge for making a change to your nonrefundable ticket. USAirways, which just last Friday became the first airline to start charging for soft drinks, says such fees will bring in $400 million to $500 million a year. "Customers understand the cost of doing business with these fuel prices," says USAirways spokeswoman Michelle Mohr. "They don't expect a free hot dog at the ballpark...
...JetBlue If it doesn't turn up the air-conditioning and force you to buy that blanket and pillow, the airline is still relatively flyer-friendly: no charge for the first checked bag, free soft drinks and unlimited snacks, and a $100 change...
...like flipping from cable soft-core straight to Masterpiece Theatre. Siddhartha, "under the spell of liquor and love," is petting concubines one day; the next, disgusted with it all, he's galloping on his noble steed Kánthaka far away from his father's opulent digs ("with his yearning aroused/ for the dharma that's imperishable") and making for the woods, where he turns away from material delusions...
...bridge you take to work just collapsed. In politics, it has become a euphemism for pork-barrel spending. In the pre-Newt era of Democratic congressional dominance, it smacked of payoffs to big city machines and construction unions. That is one of the reasons Democratic candidates for President have soft-pedaled this basic governmental responsibility in the Reagan pendulum cycle. In the 2000 campaign, Al Gore proposed a new sort of infrastructure spending: a massive alternative-energy program - $15 billion a year for 10 years - to replace the country's dependence on fossil fuels like oil and coal...