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...Jada Pinkett Smith), he hires as his stars a homeless tap dancer (Savion Glover) and his pal (Tommy Davidson). Renamed Mantan and Sleep 'n Eat, they are given a supporting cast of Topsy, Rastus, Sambo and Aunt Jemima--enough reminders of racism to spur protests from an enraged citizenry. Guess what? The show is a smash. Audience members show up in blackface. The unknowns become stars. America loves Mantan...
...Bush's numbers are much bolder than the facts warrant. His "200 programs" is based on a Bush-campaign laundry list of Gore ideas, including two new websites (each counts as a program). His "20,000 bureaucrats" is a partisan guess in an unreleased report by the Republican staff of the Senate Budget Committee. His biggest-spender-since-L.B.J. charge is more substantive. It is based on analysis by Carol Cox Wait of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan watchdog group. Wait compared the inflation-adjusted costs of various programs over the past 35 years...
Despite all the hoo-hah I hear on campus about the new Radiohead album (well, admittedly something this page is contributing to), it's worth pointing out that OK Computer, their most successful album ever, has only sold 1.7 million copies in the U.S. So I guess it's a certain segment of the population-hipster-wannabe college students?-who are the ones generating all the buzz...
...read the book, and boy was I disappointed. Well, I read most of it, ya know--it was four hundred pages, so I skimmed past some of the boring parts. It was just too long, this book. Gets kind of monotonous. I guess I just don't want anybody else to have to read Dream Catcher, so I wrote this review to warn people not to make the mistake I made. It's not like I'm telling people not to read it at all. I mean, it offers some really interesting facts about this guy, J.D. Salinger...
...assault that bespeaks organization and planning. Antonio Alves, one of the settlers, says he came here because he was told the land did not belong to anyone. In fact, it belongs to a nonprofit organization that has not been able to produce clear title to the land; ibama officials guess that the settlers were tipped to this opportunity by a local politician...