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...raising taxes and cutting services to balance their budgets, but Utah is enjoying a third straight budget surplus. Other states are having trouble attracting job- creating businesses, but in Utah they are flocking in from all over. What Utah proves is that church and government can work together to usher in good times...
...rhetoric suggested the view that only if Saddam Hussein was painted as evil incarnate could Bush rally the people behind him. Left unopposed, the President declared, the takeover of Kuwait would allow Saddam to hold Western economies hostage. On the other hand, Bush hinted, an American victory would help usher in a new world order and improve prospects for peace in the Middle East. Privately, he and his aides were far less ambitious in their predictions of what the war would accomplish...
With a few prominent exceptions, most of the performances are solid. Giering, as both the angelic Angelina and the adorable Aline, is by far the most talented singer, and her melodic voice helps compensate for the weaker ones. As the usher in Trial By Jury, Baritone Skip Sneeringer commands the audience's attention but is often difficult to understand. Rosenbaum is especially memorable as the pompous judge in Trial By Jury, less for his singing performance than for his dramatics...
...rise of Hitler and Nazism. The situation of America in 1991 might be compared in some ways with that of Britain in 1945, after World War II. The Second World War was a "good war" for British scientists and engineers, and at its end, everyone expected them to usher in a new age of prosperity. But Britain's R. and D. capabilities were never sufficiently transferred to private industry. Because the British government was determined to remain a great power, it skewed research and development toward defense. Said Sir Henry Tizard, the father of radar and the government's chief...
...pivotal scene of Neil Simon's wonderful Lost in Yonkers, which opened on Broadway last week, a mildly retarded 35-year-old woman sits her family down to tell them her plan to marry a similarly handicapped usher whom she has met a few times at a local movie theater. Poor Bella cannot get the words organized and turns to her nephews, who know the secret and awkwardly help. Her sister sits in polite confusion. Her brother, a petty gangster, impatiently tries to bolt. The clan's matriarch -- the mother whose approval is what the retarded woman most wants...