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...follow. Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution sees this as one of the great social costs of modern information technology: in a kind of Darwinian process, hyperdemocracy weeds out politicians with the sort of strong internal principles that defy public opinion. "The advantage enjoyed by people willing to trim their views to the tastes of the electorate was smaller back when you couldn't find out what the electorate thought," Aaron says. Today, "few of those with core principles survive." If you don't obey talk-radio or public-opinion polls, you're ushered offstage...
Worn to perfection, the ads for this shrewd, agreeable, ultimately dishonest movie proclaim. But they lie. At 70, the actor doesn't look worn at all; he's trim and bouncy, the blue eyes undimmed by the passing years, the gray in his hair seeming, if anything, premature. He's playing a man of 60, and it is not a reach for him. It is, however, a problem for writer-director Robert Benton's movie. Benton can't help it, and Newman can't help it, but the actor is wrong for the part of Donald ("Sully") Sullivan...
...addition, the financial aid system has undergone considerable change. The administration has cut 50 percent of aid allotments in order to trim Harvard's deficit. To quell the growing problem of welfare king-students and queen-students, all students receiving aid will have to take full-time jobs to justify their subsidies. Sadly, work-study jobs now belong to the past. To best stabilize Harvard's floundering economic condition, applications can no longer be need-blind...
...high Dolomites, the Pope, determined to reach a cross planted on a peak far ahead, walked so far that his aides became worn out and could go no farther. He agreed that all his staff could rest and wait for him, but he insisted that the fit and trim Joaquin Navarro continue with him. It took another three hours to reach the cross. The Pope was dressed in hiking togs -- one of those rare moments when he has been seen publicly in mufti. On the way up, they passed a group of German hikers descending the slope. John Paul greeted...
Inevitably the strong performances of the talented leads drown within the boring and inane plot. When Ruddigore was first produced in 1887, the audience began booing and screaming "Bring back the Mikado!" After that, Gilbert and Sullivan had the good sense to trim down the play, and revivals ever since have gone along with these changes. But the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players have chosen to override these changes and restore Ruddigore to its original clunky form. They do a disservice to their own efforts and their talented cast by turning a potentially entertaining theatrical event into a tiresome...