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Another science fiction story set in a futuristic wasteland devoid of morals and any sort of acceptable ecology. The story starts off well and then descends in a spiral of miserable chase scenes. Mick Jagger is surprisingly good while Emilio Estevez is mediocre. Anthony Hopkins is also present here, in his first role since his wonderfully chilling portrayal of Hannibal Lechter in Silence of the Lambs...
What would George Bush hear if he took along a spiral notebook and two Secret Service agents and began a series of quiet visits, without the press, to communities like East Lansing, Mich., and Kansas City, Mo., and Geneva, N.Y., and Anaheim, Calif.? He could stay up late drinking coffee with a family or two and listening to their problems, and then go to sleep on the foldout sofa in the living room...
ENTITLEMENTS. Significant increases in capital will be possible only when the deficit is controlled, a difficult task when the costs of entitlement programs continue to spiral. To his credit, Tsongas has flirted with capping cost-of- living adjustments at 1% below the inflation rate, and he seconds Bush's desire for a greater contribution to Medicare from those who earn more than $125,000 a year. He has backed off an earlier call to means-test Social Security, an idea that views as folly the right of rich and poor to draw equal retirement stipends. But at least Tsongas...
While no one could say when the dismally familiar spiral of violence might end, Jerusalem maintained repeatedly from the start that its attacking forces were limited in number and that their mission would be short. On Friday the . troops were pulled back to the security zone, but officials promised they would return if Hizballah did not halt its rocket attacks...
Often the dialogue ends with some sort of Marxist summation. In pre-med row, for example, a spiral of obscenities draws this comment: "Manifestations of anger in response to an oppressive university and society...