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Surprise! Supreme Court nominee Stephen Breyer sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose 10 Democrats and eight Republicans voted unanimously to send the Boston moderate to the bench. Breyer watchers say the full Senate will rubber-stamp him as soon as Friday...
...film seems content to keep the theme of Gould open to interoperation. The film derives much of its humor from the ongoing bewilderment and second-guessing of his friends. Why did Gould insist upon wearing a scarf, hat and gloves throughout the summer? Why did he set the piano bench so low that the played the keyboard at eye level? Why did he keep 42 bottles of ketchup in his hotel room? One hotel chambermaid earnestly explains how all the other maids refused to work for him, because they thought he was a sexual deviant. These firsthand stories slyly poke...
...majority of the film is Gump's first-person recitation of his life story to strangers while he sits on a park bench. Could you see this happening in New York City? I think he would have been hauled off to Bellevue. Or in Los Angeles? Well, everyone drives there. No where else would people take the time, listen and empathize with a complete stranger. Yes, the movie also shows the rednecks who tease him, but the optimistic glaze of the film uses their hatred as a source for Forrest's strength and development...
...could agree on something," says TIME legal correspondent Andrea Sachs. "Which is that the pro-choice people won." BTW: The stinging rebuke of anti-abortion forces must seem like a perfect retirement gift for Justice Harry Blackmun, author of Roe v. Wade. This was his last day on the Bench...
...Chang first arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1989, he didn't expect competitive skating to play any role at all in his college career. But the transition to "all school and no skating," as well as college life with America's best and brightest left the Seal Bench Calif., native disoriented...