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...best thing about Frozen River is that the mechanics of its busy plot do not intrude awkwardly on the portrait it offers of harsh, pinched lives. There's an easy reciprocity between Ray's struggles to evade the law and her attempts, say, to give her sons some sort of Christmas - a spindly tree, a present or two beneath...
...controversy isn't entirely surprising. The point of beer pong is to get your friends drunk - and parents and university administrators generally frown on that sort of thing. Last fall, Georgetown University banned beer pong, specially made beer-pong tables and inordinate numbers of Ping-Pong balls and any other alcohol-related paraphernalia in its on-campus dorms - even in the rooms of students of legal drinking age. The University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Tufts University have also banned drinking games. "We're pleased that Tufts has put this in writing," says Michelle...
...economic-policy speech on July 7, John McCain promised to balance the federal budget, sort of. Actually, he said he would "demand" a balanced budget, but he never quite got around to saying how he would balance it. This set off a reflexive think-tank hiccup of outrage of the sort we've been living with since the days of Ronald Reagan. McCain's claim that he could achieve balance by cutting government spending elicited an immediate and justifiable Yeah, right from the experts. As always, he was fixated on cutting little things, the so-called earmarks that our legislators...
...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. You may not remember this plan, because Gore's political consultants decided it didn't "test" well. It has now been revived...
...Obama said nothing of the sort, but his promise to "take out" Pakistan's militants somehow got twisted, as often happens with messianic sects. But the point is, right now, an Obama victory was going to do nothing to endear the United States to at least this lady, and probably the Taliban...