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...hopelessly flaky and confused American superstar Anna Scott, and you have a match made in heaven. Watching these two lost souls come together, though, is something like an exercise in emotional sadism. Without any sense of irony, they play at love like two young teenagers, not like adults made wise by past love affairs. And like teenagers, they fall away from each other and come back together with equal parts earnestness and bewilderment. Why director Roger Mitchell thought this age-inappropriate emotional roller coaster would be entertaining, I'll never know. It's not love that William Thacker and Anna...
...need wise spending decisions in times of plenty even more than when we were running huge deficits and there were fewer choices. So far both parties have dealt with the surplus disingenuously, seemingly too willing to sacrifice compromise for political advantage. This is no time for Congress to embrace our recent prosperity with ill-timed and ill-conceived measures...
...accessible pop polemic some reviewers have made it out to be but an achingly ambitious manifesto from a very young young man who happens to be, alarmingly often, eloquent beyond his years. Insufferably smug, however, Purdy is not, particularly when it comes to his anointment as an instant wise man for the millennium. "Irony," he elegantly reflects, "is probably the only appropriate response to walking by a bookstore and seeing your face in the window." There--a joke...
Carol Seefeldt, a researcher on children's concepts of money at the University of Maryland, says that "if you want children to learn to make wise decisions and plan and budget, they need more than an allowance to do that." She suggests that parents involve kids in simple decisions involving the cost of meals and clothing and teach them to help comparison-shop for the family...
...these advertisements in the 1998 Congressional elections. The Shays-Meehan bill would also extend current spending limits and disclosure requirements to the organizations that air these advertisements in the last 60 days before an election. While some criticize these restrictions as unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has already set wise limits on campaign reform laws that protect the interests of free speech while allowing Congress to stem widespread corruption...