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...mind, history is made by both great and ordinary men and women, but it is the intersection of these two that draws me most. Jefferson has always held a soft spot in my heart since I visited Monticello and learned more about how he was a champion of, if nothing else, knowledge. I can briefly put on blinders to his faults and appreciate that he loved learning...
Based on the best-selling book by Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit tells the true story of an ornery, undersize, beaten-up Thoroughbred who becomes a champion in the 1930s. Seabiscuit is discovered by a broken-down cowboy (Chris Cooper) and a rich dilettante named Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), who nurse him back to health. They need a rider who can handle him. Enter Maguire as Red Pollard, a bitter, washed-up jockey who was abandoned by his parents as a kid, then grew up too tall to make the big time. Along the way, Pollard lost the sight...
...will be remembered alongside another, similar Chief Justice--Roger Taney--whose contributions to U.S. civil liberties include the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision, which held that slaves and even the free descendants of slaves were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal courts. Rehnquist fancies himself a champion of states' rights and judicial federalism, yet after the 2000 election he pulled together a bare majority of Justices who in a 54 ruling usurped Florida's voting laws and handed the presidency to George W. Bush. The doctrine of states' rights apparently ends where Rehnquist's personal political philosophy...
...will be remembered alongside another, similar Chief Justice?Roger Taney?whose contributions to U.S. civil liberties include the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision, which held that slaves and even the free descendants of slaves were not citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court. Rehnquist fancies himself a champion of states' rights and judicial federalism, yet in 2000 he pulled together a bare majority of Justices who in a 5-4 ruling usurped Florida's election laws and handed the presidency to George W. Bush. The doctrine of states' rights apparently ends where Rehnquist's personal political philosophy begins...
...Retired. Cathy Freeman, 30, Australian runner and one of the nation's greatest athletes, who became the first Aboriginal Olympic champion in an individual event after she won gold in the 400-meter race before an exhilarated home crowd at the 2000 Sydney Games; announced in London. "I've lost that want, that desire, that passion, that drive," she said...