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...While John Howard was away on foreign duty, Costello, as acting Prime Minister, looked the part: serious and steady. He traversed the country, taking the TV cameras from the mines of Broken Hill to the illegal foreign fishing vessels smoldering in Darwin harbor. Despite the Budget, a lot of non-Treasury business has been dominating the news: East Timor's troubles, the death spiral of remote Aboriginal communities, nuclear power and uranium enrichment. Custodian Costello slotted right in. Voters, and the Liberal party, are getting a little taste of life after Howard and a carefully managed introduction to his natural...
...seen as sympathetic to, rather than working toward, the republican push and the cause of Aboriginal reconciliation, Costello has detached himself from the liberal-progressive caravan on social issues. These days he's either pitching to his party's conservative base or trying to master the populism that explains Howard's hold on the masses. Costello is not soft. The argument that he's had an easy run and needs a stint in opposition to forge his character smells of retribution for Costello's unfortunate smirk. Just as valid, if no less comforting for his supporters, is the view that...
...anticipation for the opening-night film was so sizable, so tense and tangy, it was almost erotic. Think of it: a big new movie from an Oscar-winning quartet - star Tom Hanks, director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman. Yet nearly as soon as The Da Vinci Code began, the critics fell into a peckish mood. At the end of a long, soggy film, the black-tie swells went off to their parties, and the critics slumped away to write their regretful pans. Though we didn't know it then, The Da Vinci Code experience would turn...
...more pages.” I plan on seeing the film, and I plan on enjoying it. Why can’t people just enjoy the movie (and the book) for what it is: an enthralling piece of fiction. Neither Dan Brown, the author of the book, nor Ron Howard, the director of the film, claim to purvey anything more than that. Fiction. For those who have forgotten, fiction means “pretend,” i.e. not worth hunger-striking over. People with the penchant to boycott, disrupt, or hunger-strike should pick a more meaningful cause. MATTHEW...
...Still, among the people who could change the law - lawmakers on Capitol Hill - there remains a rare bipartisan consensus behind it. The House of Representatives last week opened a series of hearings to look into No Child Left Behind. At the start of the hearing, House Education Committee Chairman Howard McKeon, a Republican from California, said "the impact of No Child Left Behind has been dramatic, and a positive step forward for students, teachers, parents, and taxpayers." The committee's top Democrat, George Miller, was scarcely less enthusiastic: "No Child Left Behind is making a difference," he said...