RON Shelton, the writer-director of two baseball movies -- the good Bull Durham and the hapless Cobb -- has now made a golf movie, Tin Cup. Unlike baseball, which is highly cinegenic, golf is dubious movie material. Too slow, too laid-back, too ambulatory,...

THANKS TO the PACs, most congressional incumbents can easily outraise and outspend all but the strongest challengers-and most incumbents are Democrats. You would think therefore that Republicans would be the ones calling most urgently for campaign finance reform-and you would be wrong. The...