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Reform, as defined, is fixing, improving, exorcising faults. But as Congress defines it, it is simply change--and in this case, change for the worse. What the latest version of the welfare bill really institutes is a codification of cruelty...
...deadline, have successfully averted a trade war. Both sides are claiming victory, with acting U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky calling the deal "responsive to the views of the Clinton Administration", and her counterpart, Japanese Trade Minister Shunpei Tsukahara, saying the deal was almost exactly the same as Japan's version of the plan. Until the agreement was announced today, U.S. negotiators were arguing that the inroads American computer chips had made in the Japanese market were in jeopardy if no transition agreement could be reached. The U.S. share of the huge Japanese semiconductor market has reached 30 percent, exceeding...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Denied a chance to air his opinions live at the Republican Convention in August, Pat Buchanan held a press conference Wednesday to release his version of the GOP agenda and to outline his requirements for endorsing Bob Dole. In his platform, Buchanan reiterates his support for a constitutional ban on abortion, for broad tax cuts, a crackdown on immigration and isolationist trade policies. The items, said Buchanan, were not "take it or leave it proposals," but were an important means of delineating the difference between the GOP candidate and Bill Clinton. Though "insulted" by the Dole campaign...
...Time to Kill," director Joel Schumacher brings us a solid, slightly above-average film version of the popular John Grisham novel. Emerging unscathed, Grisham's blood-lust plot acquires illustration through film more than illumination: the actors have occasion to shine, but often we feel the textbook provocation of the story itself doing much of the work...
...everyone in the family suddenly becomes a fountain of angry complaints pent up for much too long. This brings life to C.C., force to Ed, humanity to Ian (well, a little bit) and fury to Pat. Add all this to Leeore Schnairsohn's slick-radio-announcer-turned-Jimmy-Swaggart version of Porter and his born-again bride Zivia, and you've got an ending too deliciously and devilishly clever to spoil in a mere review. The true meaning of the title is revealed around this point: it's not just that Zivia is sucking the life...