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...damaging the ligaments that hold the knee together. Many women basketball players have suffered painful and potentially debilitating tears to the anterior cruciate ligament, which can take months to heal. Doctors think it may have something to do with a woman's wider hips, which place a greater strain on the ligaments joining the thigh to the knee. These ligaments are weaker in women to start with...
...BUSH saunters toward a presidential candidacy--allies say he'll announce an exploratory committee within a week or two--fund raisers for rival campaigns are getting night sweats. "Waiting for his decision has been suffocating," complains a top moneyman for another campaign. Other Republican hopefuls crisscross the country and strain eager smiles for potential donors, but the Texas Governor has let the party come to him. Last week a muscular troika of rainmakers that included investment banker HENRY KRAVIS, oilman JOHN MORAN and fund manager LEWIS EISENBERG made the pilgrimage. Rival camps are terrified that Bush will reject federal matching...
...marriage between Skerritt and Keaton is also an important aspect of the plot that is alluded to but quickly abandoned. Several times throughout the movie, the couple is pitted in conflicting roles concerning the strain of raising, and letting go of, Carla. This scenario is very real in such a complicated situation but unfortunately its importance is downplayed. The struggles are continually dissolved in a similar manner and without much angst. The personality of each character is no monotonously predictable and underdeveloped that the talents of Keaton and Skarritt are wasted upon them...
...Bush saunters toward a presidential candidacy -- allies say he?ll announce an exploratory committee within a week or two -- fund-raisers for rival campaigns are getting night sweats. ?Waiting for his decision has been suffocating,? complains a top moneyman for another campaign. Other Republican hopefuls crisscross the country and strain eager smiles for potential donors, but the Texas governor has let the party come to him. Last week a muscular troika of rainmakers that included investment banker Henry Kravis, oilman John Moran and fund manager Lewis Eisenberg made the pilgrimage. Rival camps are terrified that Bush will reject federal matching...
...Candide, lovers who travel the world searching for each other. Keshet, with his naive expressions and constant smile is exactly the kind of optimist Candide should be--a character who believes that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (Voltaire is parodying a certain strain of Leibniz). Keshet shows off his excellent voice in "It Must Be Me" and the last few numbers, while Little, as Cunegonde, displays the range and quality of her voice in the solo number "Glitter and Be Gay," in which she sings several impressive scales...