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Cuomo spoke about how America has abandoned its poorest citizens. He evoked for his audience the much-vaunted 40 million working Americans who don't have health insurance, along with the millions of schoolchildren subsisting on a sub-par education, in an era when we are faced with not only a booming economy but an actual budget surplus, an era when prosperity should have rendered these problems moot. Nothing in his speech was new; none of his statistics were shocking. Democrats in the audience surely agreed with most of Cuomo's ideas; Republicans, predictably, would have loved to debate...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: A Governor Cries in the ARCO Forum | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...article about 14-year-old Harry's first shave. It didn't help that what Harry had shaved was his head. It seems the young Prince enlisted some chums to help him achieve the close-cropped hairstyle of his soccer hero Michael Owen. Alas, his classmates proved to be sub-par stylists, and a barber near Harry's boarding school was called upon to salvage the operation, relieving the Prince of his remaining mane. When the Mirror learned of the botched job, it ran a computer-generated picture of what Harry might look like hairless. Objecting to an "intrusion" into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 26, 1998 | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Broughton and Ghazal, coming off a sub-par day against Brown, fell behind 7-3, putting the team one game from elimination. But they fought back to tie the score and then take the lead 8-7. But they lost the next game and came up short in the tiebreaker, 7-5. The tiebreaker win allowed Yale to advance to the semifinals...

Author: By Nicholas D. Zeitlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Tennis Falters at ECACs | 10/20/1998 | See Source »

Despite the sub-par showing on Saturday, the Crimson remains optimistic heading into the rest of the season. It managed to stay competitive despite several key runners competing at less than 100 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Cross-Country Places Third at H-Y-P's | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

...your review! This year's thickly lush crop (see the greenery! TOUCH IT!) of art-brand-name directors (Scorsese, Allen, et al) promises to distract you with sometimes sub-par, sometimes legit current works. But what of their pasts? Forthwith some recs, gentle bleeder, color-coded for your convenience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pieces | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

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