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...Pawlenty has said that under such an order, he would have little choice but to sign the certification, but Coleman has made no promise that he wouldn't try to appeal to the highest court in the land. "The only caveat would be if the U.S. Supreme Court ordered cert and issued a stay in a certificate, which I find highly implausible - it would enrage the Senate and appear blatantly political," says Norm Ornstein, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Everything about the Franken-Coleman battle, of course, is blatantly political, but under this scenario, the U.S. Supreme...
...race is all but officially over. Last night's Golden Globe ceremony certified what earlier critics' prizes have indicated: that Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland will win Best Actor, Helen Mirren in The Queen will take Best Actress and Dreamgirls' Jennifer Hudson is a dead cert for Best Supporting Actress...
...public records law, and its implementing regulations, are applicable to documents held by public entities, not private ones. Simply put, Harvard University is a private institution, a fact not challenged by the Crimson. See, e.g., Rice v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, 663 F.2d 336, 337-338 (1st Cir.1981), cert. denied, 456 U.S. 928 (1982) (Harvard not a public institution and not sufficiently intertwined with Commonwealth to meet "[S]tate action" requirement for 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim); Krohn v. Harvard Law Sch., 552 F.2d 21, 23 (1st Cir.1977) (same). It follows, therefore, that records in the custody...
...even if Bush wasn't planning a career in aviation, that explanation is difficult for other pilots to accept. Pilots routinely sacrifice everything to keep their "medical cert" current; the military is rife with stories of cheating by pilots to pass their physicals. And the government, which spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to train and keep its pilots flying, has never looked kindly on highly trained personnel, particularly pilots, standing down on their own. "There are certain things I expect from my pilots," said Major General Paul Weaver, who retired as head of the Air National Guard...
...Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King a dead cert for Best Picture? Already the sixth all-time worldwide top-grossing film, the finale to Peter Jackson's hobbit-forming trilogy has also received plenty of critics' laurels. But to grab the big statuette, LOTR: ROTK will need to overturn a serious Academy prejudice: no flat-out fantasy film has ever nabbed the top Oscar...