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...being “liberal” was a bad thing, and, since I have always considered myself to be so ideologically inclined, my infant life in politics flashed before my eyes. Would I be branded for all my days, stripped of all credibility by this self-imposed semantic burden? Just as I was teetering precariously on the brink of emotional devastation and a career in consulting, I remembered...
Associate Professor of Government Barry Burden focuses on the more investigative function of recent films. “In revealing truths that were previously hidden from the public,” he says, “a documentary is performing a similar function to All the President’s Men”—the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward detailing the Watergate scandal that later became an award-winning movie...
Both McElwee and Burden agree, though, that the partisans’ position outside the more traditional sphere of documentary is not especially relevant. A director with an “axe to grind” is not necessary, says Burden, but it is not a disqualifying characteristic either, as “no documentary is completely impartial since it must present a limited set of facts...
...said the burden was on the prosecution to prove Pring-Wilson had not exhausted “all reasonable means of escape” and was not in “imminent danger of serious bodily harm...
Middlesex Superior Court Judge Regina Quinlan told the jury she would make available a transcript of her original instructions for their review. And Quinlan spent nearly a half hour yesterday elaborating on the prosecution’s burden in proving Pring-Wilson did not act in self-defense when he fatally stabbed a Cambridge teenager in April...