Word: summer
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Russian army," says WGA secretary-treasurer Mike Mahern. "It's underestimated because it's unwieldy and seemingly disorganized. But ask Hitler or Napoleon about the power of the Russian army." So watch out for a big battle. "Pearl Harbor" might not be the only Hollywood war drama next summer...
...getting killed at tax time because of a quirk in the code. He said she faced a "tollgate" on the road to the middle class, and he ordered his economists to smooth the way. "I want a package that deals directly with this problem," he said. Through the summer and fall of 1999, Bush's economists, led by supply-sider Larry Lindsey, trooped down to Austin with proposal after proposal to lower the marginal tax rate for all payers and eliminate Bush's tollgate. But the smart guys could never quite satisfy the governor; he kept demanding rewrites until...
...what candidates are all taught in Poli Sci 101 and pivot back to the center for the general election? Partly because his base was still wobbling; he kept stalling at about 80 percent of registered Democrats, even as Republicans were more than 90 percent stapled to Bush by summer. Gore, a free trader, had only 45 percent of union households in June; Ralph Nader was attracting enough lefties and anti-globalists and environmentalists to tip states like Wisconsin and Oregon into Bush's column. Gore's advisers argued that they would have to rebuild the Democratic coalition bloc by bloc...
...fictional? But whatever documentary instincts Berlinger may have honed over the years can't help his script, co-written with Dick Beebe, which unfolds with all the imagination and genre-challenging of a "Tales From the Crypt" episode. The premise at least taps nicely into the vein of last summer's Blair Witch hysteria as a quintet of twentysomethings journey into the infamous woods of Burkitsville on a kind of "Blair Witch Reality Tour." The jolly crew includes Jeff, scruffy leader and ex-mental patient; Kim, resident goth chick; Stephen, aspiring writer on all things Blair Witch; Tristen, girlfriend...
...friendly, the most useful contact I've had with Harvard staff administration," said Mike J. Schultz '02 who credits Hunt with getting him a summer job at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...