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...Second Continental Congress, after which two self-satisfied white landowners in paper hats dance around chanting “No girls allowed! No blacks allowed!...It’s a good thing the word racist hasn’t been invented yet!” Next come Jim Crowe laws, the Seneca Falls Convention and finally the Vietnam war protests that eventually resulted in lowering the voting age to match the age for draft eligibility with the 26th Amendment...
...while the prices of many big-ticket consumer durables, such as automobiles and refrigerators, remained stable or fell, the cost soared for many everyday services--hairdressers, cafs, parking meters. "They may not amount to a large part of people's budgets, but they are very visible," says Jim Murray of BEUC, a Brussels-based consumer group...
...than any character in his films. After exploring the unlikable, self-tortured inhabitants of his hometown of Omaha in Citizen Ruth, Election and About Schmidt, Payne, 43, has moved on to unlikable, self-tortured Californians. In his latest film, Sideways, opening Friday, the director and his longtime writing partner Jim Taylor turned a novel by Rex Pickett into a quirky movie about a failed writer and a C-list actor who go on a weeklong wine-tasting bachelor party through the vineyards near Santa Barbara. Paul Giamatti plays the novelist, who is deeply in love with wine and deeply...
While hordes of native-born celebs are encouraging Americans to vote, some immigrants of stature are just earning the right. Canadian-born funnyman JIM CARREY says he was motivated to become a U.S. citizen by the upcoming election. Awww ... should we tell Carrey and the other newly minted Yanks that California is not in play...
...among young men last fall, executives blamed new shows starring women (Karen Sisco, Miss Match). Family sitcoms hew to the formula of lumpy guy with hot, smart but secondary wife. Bush's answer to the "strong women" question--that he learned "to listen to them"--was According to Jim politics. He's the likable hubby who needs Laura to point out his foibles, but he's still the star...