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...this, the President's ruling passion, she's active, she's public and she has apparently joined the Cheney-Rumsfeld camp in its determination to push the scheme through, come what may. Powell says steadfastly, "It isn't a threatening situation to me. She's not supposed to be in my corner. She's not supposed to be in Rumsfeld's corner. She's supposed to be in the President's corner, and she is, and she enjoys his confidence...
...help Hoffa's re-election bid this fall. The Teamsters are more diverse than other unions, and G.O.P. ties will appeal to members who backed Nixon, Reagan and the President's father. Tacking Republican also distances Hoffa from his predecessor, now on trial for perjury connected to an alleged scheme to use money tied to the Democratic Party...
...That?s bad news for the machinist who?s out of a job, but it?s nothing but good news for the economy as a whole. After all, here?s the scheme for the recovery, whenever it comes: Companies cut costs. Eventually they return to profitability. Prospects improve. Wall Street rewards them with increased stock valuations. They use the cash to invest in further efficiency and productivity gains so they can sell more for less, and voila! The business cycle is back on the upswing...
...hold the improbable belief that for a writer, the mind at its end funnels down to a single word--one piece that, because it is connected to nothing but itself, requires no larger scheme to be intelligible. And that one word would be all that the writer's life meant. Manchester can no longer make connections, thus neither can his many readers, who mourn not only him and all he had meant, but all they had been, and no longer were, and would never be again...
...triad movie Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 has a devious structure that Alan Ayckbourn might envy: a layabout named Kau (Lau Ching-wan) is drawn into a heist scheme. Is it in China? Or in Taiwan? The two parts of this what-if scenario show the results, with some odd twists, as when the hoods laboriously seal their comrade's corpse behind a wall, then hear the sound of a beeper?it's the dead man's, which they need to get further instructions, and they buried it with him behind the wall. Wai visualized this complex farrago...