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...mormon church official and a public relations executive shuttled recently from the Fox News Washington bureau to the Washington Post to the online political digest the Hotline. The two were engaging in a little pre-emptive rearguard action, gearing up for the impending Republican presidential campaign of Massachusetts Governor (Willard) Mitt Romney, 59, whose family has long been part of the church's élite...
...from Holy Cross (4-0). As the Crusader offense gelled, the wheels fell off Harvard’s due to a confounding match-up zone. “Harvard was doing some good things, pushing the ball, beating us off the dribble,” Holy Cross coach Ralph Willard said. “We went to the 1-3-1 [zone] in the last five minutes to stop the dribble penetration, it worked out really well.” Just minutes earlier, highly touted Crusader guards Keith Simmons and Torey Thomas made up for their early-game dormancy...
...they examined the film's key dramatic premise (that long-lost daughter - Parker Posey - is bringing her lesbian lover home to the family). You'd think they might see through the hype, since largely represented by the divinely clueless hosts of a syndicated Entertainment Tonight TV show (Fred Willard and Jane Lynch...
...Some of the sharpest lines go to such Guest stalwarts Michael McKean, as one of the film's screenwriters (who, when asked for changes, warns, "You don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, because then you'd have a wet, critically injured baby") and Fred Willard, as the airhead host of a TV infotainment show (complaining about foreign films, he says, "French movies with writing on the screen - I always think it's breaking news"). O'Hara has the meatiest, or hammiest, role as a has-been diva who by Oscar-nomination time has transformed...
...anticipated Republicans playing the race card in the November elections. Then he basically justified their tactics. I wish Klein were more appalled by what right-wing extremists who are in control of the government are doing than by what Democrats might do if they win control of the House. Willard Taylor Upper Marlboro, Maryland, U.S. Klein noted that Conyers could become chairman of the Judiciary Committee and that he has threatened impeachment hearings against President Bush. Klein said that would be a case of Democrats' "emphasizing witch hunts instead of substantive policies." Impeachment might be incendiary, but it is important...