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...grass-roots dismay began with the disputed election result in Florida, 2000. The Republicans seemed far more tough-minded in pursuit of the prize, bringing in their heavy guns--the Jeb Bush operation, family consigliere Jim Baker and, ultimately, five Supreme Court justices--to win the presidency. Then the Democrats in Congress made the disastrous assumption that Bush would be amenable to bipartisan compromise. "Bipartisanship is another name for date rape," the fanatic G.O.P. tax cutter Grover Norquist later said, in what could stand as an epitaph for the gullible Congressional Democrats. No less a liberal than Ted Kennedy gave...
...director, best known for ?The Four Hundred Blows? and ?Jules and Jim? (warm Truffaut), also loved psychological thrillers (cool Truffaut). This one is cool - freon cold. Truffaut did a book-length interview with Hitchcock, and ?Bride? is supposed to be his homage to the Master of Suspense. But Julie, in her uninflected implacability, belongs less to Hitchcock than to Robert Bresson, the great French minimalist. His heroines - Joan of Arc, Mouchette, the suicidal young wife in ?Une femme douce? - all bear the cross of living. All seek the transcendence of death...
Jumpers by freshman guard Jim Goffredo with 7:49 remaining and junior captain Jason Norman with 52 seconds to play bookended a 22-6 Raider run during which the only Harvard field goal was a layup by Rogus off a feed from Goffredo...
...Headed by former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore, the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction voices concern, in its draft report, that civil liberties are getting too little attention as new security measures are proposed. It also cites a ?need for the White House to take more of an aggressive role as a more forward-looking body,? said a source familiar with the panel's work. ?If they're doing it, they're doing it in such a superficial or under-the-radar fashion that that it did not become apparent...
...last week, Reese received a call from USA Hockey official Jim Johansson that included a much more enjoyable conversation topic—Reese had been selected to compete for the United States at the 2004 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship...