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Down in the cesspool of Port-au-Prince, it does not feel that way. A brutal dictatorship, a repressive army and organized political violence have been banished, but crime and mob rule are filling the vacuum of authority. Five thousand ill-trained, ill-equipped and immature policemen must control a desperate population of 7 million, propped up by a rapidly dwindling U.N. force. The country has acquired the image but not the substance of democracy: it has a duly elected President and parliament but a completely dysfunctional government. The economy is still at ground zero: no jobs, no investment...
Thereafter, the camera work serves to highlight both the flesh-for-money world Travis lives in and the pathetic madness of the cabbie himself. Several overhead shots of tables as hands exchange money and purchases emphasize the vacuum of this world. At several points, the camera speed is subtly slowed down, as when Travis sweeps his hand over a table in the campaign office with Betsy, making the scene even more hypnotic without our realizing...
...this year owes much to a broken heart: Forbes was long a devoted backer of Jack Kemp, having chaired Empower America, the refuge for conservatives like Kemp and Bill Bennett. Had Kemp entered the race, Forbes would be snug at home editing his magazine right now. But when the vacuum opened, Wall Street Journal writer turned political consultant Jude Wanniski, another New Jersey neighbor, faxed Forbes a memo late last spring about how it all could work. Forbes pondered...and pondered. He was very tempted, and very cautious, and so decided to do some market testing. Russo conducted no fewer...
Three top White House figures testified before the Senate Whitewater committee today. Under intense questioning by committee chairman Alfonse D'Amato, former White House attorney William Kennedy asserted that his notes of a 1993 Whitewater meeting, while cryptic, were innocuous. The phrase "Vacuum, Rose Law files" was not "an integrated phrase," Kennedy told the committee. Instead, the words referred not to a plan to remove (i.e. vacuum) files from the firm, but to a lack of Whitewater information at the Rose firm where Hillary Clinton formerly was a partner. Another phrase of particular interest to investigators, "Documents -- never know...
...real nuclear device ever is found, NEST's diagnostic and assessment teams have all kinds of equipment, such as portable X-ray machines, with which to peek under the bomb's wrapping. An instrument that looks like a Dustbuster is swept over the outside of the bomb to vacuum up any faint but telling fumes it might emit...