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SMALL SOLDIERS (July 10). After MouseHunt, DreamWorks keeps acting out its Disney animus with this warped take on Toy Story. Nuclear-powered action figures (think of an Arnold doll with Chucky's soul) march amuck. More artillery than LW4, but less bang for the buck...
This past week, U.S. District Court judge Susan Webber Wright dismissed Paula Jones' sexual harassment case on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to go to trial. According to Judge Wright, Jones' claims of the "hostility and animus" she felt from her supervisors did not demonstrate sexual harassment...
...would Thompson possibly have an animus against Berkowitz? The embattled Berkowitz related a story of the critical review he published of a Thompson book in The New Republic on Nov. 25, 1996, just around the time the tenure deliberations in the government department began. Interestingly, the book in question, which was co-written with the liberal theorist Amy Gutmann '71 was called Democracy and Disagreement: Why Moral Conflict Cannot Be Avoided in Politics, and What Should be Done About It. The book argues that democratic societies should engage in substantive deliberation over serious moral issues in order to achieve "mutually...
Whitehead insists he has no personal or political animus against Clinton. "I don't know enough about him to dislike him. I really don't disagree a lot with Clinton," he says. If it weren't for his opposition to Clinton's position on abortion, Whitehead insists, "I could vote for the man very easily." He denies speculation that he pursued the high-profile Jones case in the hope that it would boost donations to the institute, which Whitehead admits are "down some." (That may explain why he has closed his last two regional offices in the past year...
...other studio heads, who can be stirred to animation animus when they shiver in the shadow of the cartoon colossus. "We're rooting for Anastasia," says Bob Daly, Warner Bros. and Warner Music Group chairman and co-CEO. "It would be great for the entire industry if a non-Disney animated film became a real...