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...soon as the campaign-finance-reform bill won final passage last week, it became fashionable to dismiss it as too weak to clean up the money game. But if President Bush signs the bill, as he says he will, and if it survives a court challenge, it will put a damper on at least one type of feeding frenzy: soft-money bacchanals like the one last May, when 3,000 gathered at the D.C. Armory for a black-tie gala honoring the new President. In his speech, George W. Bush noted Washington's "many temptations," one of which...
...equivalent of a motivational speaker. If movies could be scaled in terms of Magical Moments per frame (MM/f), baseball films would surely top the chart, for the sport, like no other, has long been infused with the kind of mytho-poetic connotations that make English professors go weak at the knees...
...sibling honeymoon cruise on the Queen Mary; J.J. and Sidney are a pair of schemers almost worthy of Shakespeare, as if Richard III (J.J.) were married to Lady Macbeth (Sidney, rubbing those hands to get the stain out, or spark fire). Lehman built a formicary of dark characters with weak dependents: Sidney with his secretary, J.J. with Susan, Susan with Dallas, the columnist Leo Bartha with his nagging wife, columnist Otis Elwell with a sexy cigarette girl. And he nicely establishes the final frame-up, where Susie shows she is her brother's sister. "The terrible thing about people like...
Clinton was also wrong to minimize the importance of governmental agencies, especially that of the CIA. Horowitz made the valid claim that the CIA has been reduced to a weak and vulnerable body of disconnected parts, lacking effective leadership and the proper means to protect the nation...
...defense, they had nice extracurriculars and excellent essays RUSSELL CROWE Mr. Oscar's next film runs afoul of the Screen Actors Guild. Perhaps the film's title, Why Actors Make the Best Scabs, is the issue JERRY SPRINGER Bush says his talk show made terrorists think the U.S. was weak. Obviously they didn't see how far a midget hillbilly can throw a chair...