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...Alan Greenspan's getting his soluble fiber. Who really cares - just as long as we like the guy? In fact, who needs some guy with big ideas that just might mess things up? If the nation is secure, who cares if the guy with his finger on the nuclear button pronounces it "nuke-yoo-ler"? Today, Bush's film and his campaign say, America is in the middle of one of the biggest prolonged parties in its history. So who do you want to take to the dance - me or the stiff? The crafted image he presented...
...West Communications sent home, then fired Christine Wilson after she refused to remove or cover a STOP ABORTION button. Wilson said she had made a religious vow to keep the button on. The court decided in favor of US West...
...that measure motion and extrapolate steps, I liked the elegant design of this one enough to pay the difference. (Products in the Digi-Walker line range from $25 for a bare-bones model that just counts steps to $35 for the deluxe edition, which, at the touch of a button, also converts steps to miles and calories burned and comes with a built-in stopwatch for those who feel obliged to set a more vigorous pace.) Of course, you could do this mentally: 10,000 steps = 5 miles = 500 calories, roughly...
...Today story, debate rages over whether this newly sloganized "insist and assist" attitude - set the standards and bend over backward helping everybody get through - constitutes a lowering of the bar or an enlightenment of philosophy. In the age of push-button wars and untold desk jobs, isn't the Army just being smart by being patient? Or is a 10 percent failure rate - from serious injury or mental incompatibility, usually - an insult to the supposed test of mettle that boot camp was once supposed...
...characters are often crushed by the burden of glamour, but the film isn't. It wears its gravity with a buoyant ease, seeing through walls, magically turning statues into people. It shows Marcel, as a child, watching himself as a young man--just as we all hit the replay button on our lives. Like the turn-of-the-20th-century fantasy films of Georges Melies, Time Regained reminds you that all cinema is a clever trick of the light...