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Yet now the White House--noticing the WTO for the very first time since the signing ceremony--is trying to make sure it gets off to a bad start.
The movie's zigs and zags are too entertaining to divulge, but it's permissible to say that Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, as a Miami-based government marshal, meet cute: She gets shut up with him in the trunk of a getaway car and is hostage to his chatter about movies, a life of crime, and how he wishes he had met her in a bar so he could have picked her up.
GOP Whip Tom DeLay added that "the American people will get better art once the government gets out of the way."
The WSJ runs a front-page feature on the continuing Russian economic crisis, and the story also gets play on the NYT and USAT 's "Money" section fronts.
The hero yields to a best-repressed impulse (the urge to be unfaithful to his true love) and gets launched on a dark odyssey, which culminates in his near death and a vision of society's most ferociously psychosexual underpinnings--civilization and its discontents and all that.