Word: reforms
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...plot slows down considerably, yet this is made up for by a series of scenes showing the four starring women sitting around the kitchen table, nursing their neuroses and trying to set their family right. During this time, Mary Ann outs Elizabeth as a lesbian, Nora tries to reform Mary Ann with elaborate guilt trips about motherhood and Elizabeth frantically searches for any household product that can give her a quick high. The current of hostility running between the three sisters is sharp and well done. Less convincing are the few sentimental moments, as the chemistry between Gail (Alex Cooley...
Vicente Fox Posada's biggest enemy might, perhaps, be his people's high expectations of a new political order in Mexico. But the mammoth odds against his efforts to reform his country's torpid economic and political system give him a Quixotic sheen, which has everyone from the poorest peasants in Oaxaca to the most worldly wise diplomats in Mexico City ready to extend him a generous line of political credit...
From campaign finance reform, to child poverty, to pollution emission standards, the senator engaged in a conversational and, he said, mainly unscripted profession of his policy goals and ideas...
...While both conferences are models of what college athletics should be, Feinstein commented that there is not much that schools like Harvard can do to reform the NCAA...
...executive's power to actualize his agenda. But 80 percent of the country say they'll nominally support whomever is declared the winner. As for the split Congress, my unsubtle view is that the 50-50 Senate has a moderate Republican bias. There is political capital for campaign finance reform. It might happen. Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) could be wise to follow a pragmatic, moderate course of action if they want success in the 2002 midterm elections...