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...Kill Me is no big deal of a movie either. It's small scale, low budget and not straining for big yuks. On the other hand, it's an unprepossessing delight, especially after Frank meets Laurel (Tea Leoni). She's a salty talker and he's drawn to her by her less than grief-stricken remarks about her stepfather, as Frank prepares his body for his last rites. You may wonder what a bright, pretty young woman would see in an aging, taciturn mobster, but, hey, this is a romantic comedy of a sorts and stranger things than that have...
...interview in early June, McGovern detailed his priorities and positions on the issues, most of which put him in general agreement with Nolan and Schuster. McGovern said, for example, that he wants to increase the transparency of the district budget, while also giving principals a portion of the school district's fiscal surplus that they could then use as discretionary funds—two things Nolan and Schuster have called for, only to see the proposals fail...
...years ago, Chertoff traded in a very good job for a very hard job. An appellate judge with a lifetime appointment, he left the bench to take over a federal department with a $43 billion budget and more than 180,000 employees, corralling 22 different agencies that report to 88 different subcommittees on the Hill. Chertoff's tenure didn't start well. He had been in the job just six months when Hurricane Katrina hit. That day, says P.J. Crowley, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Chertoff "didn't understand his job. He was shocked to realize...
...food costs have risen this year. In May grocery prices were 4.4% higher than they were the previous May. If 4.4% doesn't sound like much--you spend $104.40 now for a cartful that was $100 a year ago--it's a huge deal to food producers and to budget shoppers, who are making lots of casseroles. The Department of Agriculture anticipates that grocery prices won't significantly fall before January; if the USDA is right, you would have to go back to 1990 to find a bigger single-year increase...
...with all the trouble Giuliani has been facing in recent days. The same day he lost his South Carolina chairman, Giuliani also saw his most prominent Iowa supporter sidelined, when former Rep. Jim Nussle was summoned to Washington to serve as new head of the Office of Management and Budget. The Long Island newspaper Newsday broke the story that Giuliani was a virtual no-show as a member of the Iraq Study Group - he was too busy making million-dollar speeches and other appearances, the article claimed - and resigned from the blue-ribbon panel after being told he must either...