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J.F.K. was a nervous man on the morning Alan Shepard climbed into Freedom 7. Always a skeptic about the technical claims of engineers and scientists, Kennedy glumly watched Shepard's launch with his hands jammed in his pockets, expecting the worst. Yet Shepard went smoothly in and out of space in 15 minutes and got the monkey off Kennedy's back...
...successes culminating in American Beauty (1999), the critical reception for his last few movies was mixed; Gale, which deals with the death penalty in the U.S., is getting positive buzz. "I've always believed good politics makes bad theater," says Spacey. "I wanted to do it because of [director Alan] Parker. Whenever he has a social injustice or political issue at the center of a film, he manages to make that stuff hide and make the film about people and emotions, so the politics becomes almost subversive. And maybe in a drama, people will walk out of a movie like...
...haven't they gone up yet? If there's one thing Wall Street's stock and bond markets do incessantly, it's "price in" the odds and possibilities of every possible scenario, from Alan Greenspan's next move to Bill Gates'. This Street is paved with forecasts, what-ifs, educated bets and calibrated probabilities. With one Saddam scenario (the good one) so much conventionally wiser than the others - and at the very least a decent bet - how come stocks keep sputtering...
...Schkolnick has received backing from Harvard Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who has given her advice and agreed to appear as a witness against the clubs, and Sally Frank, who won a similar suit against two all-male eating clubs at Princeton University...
Epstein has forged connections with both academics and politicians. For example, he introduced Nowak to President Bill Clinton, and he also brought Kosslyn together with Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz. Dershowitz now teaches a class with Kosslyn...