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...NASDAQ's close last Monday, the San Jose, Calif., Internet router maker emerged as the most valuable company in the world, with a market capitalization of $555 billion, more than $13 billion ahead of the reigning cap king, Microsoft. This shifting of the tech-tonic plates represents more than just Cisco's success and uncertainty over Microsoft's legal problems. In fact, it provides a pretty good road map of the post-PC landscape into which our economy and volatile stock market are heading...
Bush's plan gives a nod to the tee-time-and-tonic-water Republicans who like cuts in the top marginal rate. But he broadens it by slicing rates for the working class too and jabs McCain for caring more about paying down the debt than providing relief to a single mother earning $25,000 a year. While Bush is positioning himself to McCain's right, he still ignored a major, long-standing G.O.P. priority: his plan leaves capital-gains-tax rates untouched. And all through his speeches and policy positions are signals that he is the kind of Republican...
...trip was a tonic for him; this film, for all its verbal and emotional buoyancy, touches a depth his earlier work danced around, like revelers on a volcano's edge. Mother begins by painting an idyll: of Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a nurse who works in her hospital's organ-transplant unit, and her darling son Esteban (Eloy Azorin). Manuela is the mom every gay, or simply sensitive, son would adore. She watches All About Eve with him, gives him a Truman Capote book for his birthday, takes him to a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He is a sweet...
...Crimson Sports Grille (59 JFK St.; 868-5900; Sunday to Wednesday noon to 1 a.m., Thursday to Saturday noon to 2 a.m.) makes it doable. To avoid the premature beer belly, Matty the bartender advises to stick to light beer, vodka and whiskey. The healthiest drink is the vodka tonic. As for the hard Cider/Beer debate, keep in mind that cider has those sugar calories that beer doesn't, but cider has twice the alcohol content and will get you wicked hammered twice as fast. As for the Grille's munchies, they are surprisingly not that...
...hundreds of men in the process, its military campaign to eject the intruders also looked set to succeed if diplomacy failed. So where once it looked like a sticky wicket for Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Pakistan?s Kashmir adventure may yet turn out to have been just the tonic for his embattled government as he faces Sonia Gandhi in September?s election...