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...personable third son faces a separate disciplinary hearing this week in a Denver courthouse, federal investigators will accuse him of violating conflict-of-interest regulations while serving as a $12,000- a-year Silverado director. The 35-year-old oilman was widely perceived as a mere pawn of manipulators bent on cultivating political protection from federal regulators. Yet that sympathetic view now seems to fall far short of the full story...
...trial judge, state supreme court justice, federal appeals court judge -- and the ample record, including 220 state supreme court opinions, that was available for scrutiny. Unlike failed nominee Robert Bork, however, Souter had left behind no trail of speeches or law-review articles that might betray a strong ideological bent...
Darkman wants to be Batman. Its hero, a scientist (Liam Neeson) scarred in body and soul after being left for dead by venal thugs, is a cloaked crusader bent more on vengeance than on justice. Director Sam Raimi, whose cheapo slasher film The Evil Dead achieved cult status, mines familiar comic-book terrain with a plucky heroine (Frances McDormand), a couple of corporate villains -- one slick (Colin Friels), the other slimy (Larry Drake) -- and plenty of explosive violence that virtually reads KA-BOOM! in block letters across the screen...
...didn't want to seem like just another idiot." Horner went into the family's gravel business, but he continued to hunt for a job in the dinosaur line, finally landing one in 1975 as an assistant in paleontology at Princeton University, where his first assignment was to straighten bent nails. There, at the age of 31, he discovered that his academic problem was not stupidity but dyslexia...
...American politicians and citizens reciprocate Khomeini's loathing that U.S. policy in the '80s tilted toward none other than Saddam Hussein. The enemy of our enemy was our friend. It turns out that the enemy of our enemy became our even greater enemy, because Saddam, more than Khomeini, is bent on aggressive territorial expansion. That should have come as no surprise. After all, 10 years before Saddam invaded Kuwait, he invaded Iran...