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...Ross G. Douthat charmed the predominately liberal crowd with his tales of the political iconoclast’s lonely life. “People recognize me on the street and they spit on me,” he said. “People go by my white board and write ‘Die Fascist Pig.’” He then led a singalong to “Part of Your World,” from the Little Mermaid. We are not making this up. We’re thinking about voting Republican...
Chartey’s self-deprecating humor is clearly only part of the act. He hopes next year to write for an independent magazine or get a teaching fellowship. Lemo hopes that academia is in Chartey’s future. “I’d love to see him as a history or a literature professor,” Lemo admits. McCants agrees that her boyfriend will definitely be in the classroom...
...Here's what they're likely to get, one of these days: Extended unemployment benefits and a new round of tax rebate checks for lower-income workers, along with some faster tax-write-off rules for businesses investing in capital equipment. And whatever compromise emerges from a still-vicious fight between the Hasterts and the Daschles over health care subsidies and whether to accelerate various middle- and upper-class marginal-rate tax cuts in Bush's $1.3 trillion baby of last spring. Republicans say that's where the stimulus is; Democrats say they're welfare for the rich...
Despite his talent for writing, Wilson, who's shooting I Spy with Eddie Murphy, says, "it's more fun to go act than to hole up for a couple of months and try to write something. That's a lot scarier." But the writer in Wilson never stays dormant for long. Before shooting Behind Enemy Lines, Wilson transformed his character on the page from a swaggering pilot to a misguided navigator who has to outwit some Serbian bad guys after being shot down. "It kinda helped me make it more believable for myself," says Wilson. "I don't see myself...
...schmaltzy theater and lack of serious debate on the issues led many Taiwanese to write off the campaign as nothing more than a bad joke. But by the time results were tallied on Saturday night, it was clear that, either by serendipity or intent, Taiwan's voters had orchestrated a revolution, one that is arguably even more sweeping than Chen Shui-bian's victory in the March 2000 presidential elections. As a result, Taiwan's relations with mainland China, which regards the island as a renegade province, could become a lot more testy...