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CENTRAL CINEMA I King of Hearts 6:30 9:45, Weekend mat. 3:10 Devil by the Tail...
Runner-up John Edwards is next up on the examination table. Not satisfied to retreat with his tail between his legs, he should take comfort in the words of Linda Feldmann of the Christian Science Monitor: “He’s vetted; that’s very important. Voters know what there is to know, both positive and negative, and they obviously like him.” I’m somehow imagining Edwards with lights shone in his mouth, Saddam Hussein-style. Wary of electing house pets which are too docile for the voters?...
...pilot's precaution would be enough to make most investors turn tail. At home in Santa Monica, Mulhern, 34, watched the Iraq war and its bloody aftermath unfold on television and reached a different conclusion. If he arrived early, preferably first, and offered high-tech capability to Iraqis starved of it, customers would probably pour in. "This is the perfect storm for business," he says. "This is an extremely educated country with a lot of money, and you're starting everything from scratch. It's like a land grab." That is, if you live long enough to grab. Being...
...bridges are unusual for having asymmetrical flourishes, canted curves that slant against the water or--as in his first American span, a $23.5 million glass-and-steel footbridge in Redding, Calif., that opens next month--a long, slender tail fin at one end that operates as a sundial. "Asymmetry allows you to explore," he says. "You can emphasize things having to do with the position of the city against the water or the curvature of the stream...
...formal proceedings at the conference, at least, he was right. The term "shared values" was bandied around so much it seemed that Davos had become one giant undergraduate ethics seminar. Cheney caught the mood perfectly. A man whom, a year ago, many in Davos thought had horns and a tail, came across as nicely self-deprecatory. In a notably conciliatory speech to the Europeans in his audience, Cheney said that the old Continent was an example to all of the benefits that peace, economic success and political stability can bring. America, he said, "wants the strongest possible Europe...