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...wife and child - the love of his life and his hope for the future - as he watches helplessly. After that, any transgression, including wholesale murder, is understandable. In real life, good men may try to gulp down the black bile of their devastation and move on. They would answer Bernard Shaw's question to the 1988 Democratic candidate for President - "Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?" - in Michael Dukakis' measured tone, putting principle above vengeance. But that heroic restraint wouldn't make for a good movie. Then again...
...Have you met all the people you based these characters on? Oh yes. I've talked to or met a lot of them: Barry Diller, Phil Donahue, Bernard Rapoport, Leonard Riggio...
...while Obama's cadre of newly crowned czars has earned condemnation from the right, when it comes to recruiting presidential advisers he's in good company. During World War I, Woodrow Wilson appointed financier Bernard Baruch to head the War Industries Board - a position dubbed industry czar (this just one year after the final Russian czar, Nicholas II, was overthrown in the Russian Revolution). Franklin Roosevelt had his own bevy of czars during World War II, overseeing such aspects of the war effort as shipping and synthetic-rubber production. The term was then essentially retired until the presidency of Richard...
...image told a story of sacrifice; it told a story of bravery.' JOHN DANISZEWSKI, senior managing editor of the Associated Press, defending the agency's decision to run a photograph of Joshua Bernard, a U.S. Marine dying of wounds sustained in Afghanistan, against the wishes of Bernard's family...
...Anyone who can pick a corporate pocket for $3.6 billion is a pretty cool customer, but there are many lingering questions about the business that O'Leary and Perik delivered to Mattel in return for that money. "It was an ugly mess," says Bernard Stolar, a software-industry veteran who was brought in by Mattel to take over the Learning Company from O'Leary and Perik. "There had been an awful lot of mismanagement at the company." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...