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...incredible shrinking surplus is suddenly at the center of Washington debate. Just last fall, the Capitol seemed awash in money--and plans to spend it. Candidate George W. Bush wanted major tax cuts, missile defense and other big ticket items. Al Gore talked up a hefty new prescription-drug entitlement and more money for education. As recently as a few weeks ago, there seemed to be enough funds for Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to say he hoped that the corporate income tax could be abolished in the not too distant future. But such hopes have been dashed. Bush...
...years ago, he found a project that promised to be just the ticket: The Score, a crime flick that opens this week. And he didn't just get a cast, he got a Mount Rushmore of actors: Marlon Brando as Max, an elderly homosexual crook orchestrating the biggest heist of his career; Robert De Niro as an aging thief ready to retire from his life of crime; and Edward Norton as a smart young punk eager to begin...
...back from the airport, my dad parked the car in front of my apartment while I leaned over the passenger's seat and talked to Mama Ann. The conversation mostly focused on her fear that they would get a ticket...
...measure my success in dollars," says Roberts, raising an eyebrow and narrowing her eyes at a journalist. "That's your job." Duly noted. Since 1990, Roberts has generated nearly $1.5 billion in domestic ticket sales. But even as she has become a regular part of our Friday nights at the movies, she's become an integral part of our weekdays at the water cooler--most recently because of her breakup with actor Benjamin Bratt, her boyfriend of nearly four years. (They actually split not long after the Oscars, but she still calls him "the greatest guy.") We follow her personal...
...after landing and eventually enter the plane's sensitive electronics system," says Luft-hansa's chief medical officer Lutz Bergau. "As a passenger, would you want that to happen?" As for space, the industry acknowledges it is possible to give economy-class passengers more room, but only for higher ticket prices...