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Lithgow worked his way up the theater circuit, winning a Tony Award for “The Changing Room,” his first Broadway performance...
...slung and pyramidal, and the tiles are red terra-cotta. Egyptian hieroglyphics hang near a miniature print of the Mona Lisa; a pair of Japanese paintings face off against a profile of Lenin. They're mementos of the director's many trips around the global film-festival circuit, reminders that Adoor's movies, like his home, have a local heart but an international soul...
...least two debates this coming week over controversial nominees to the lower courts will preview what's to come. A full Senate vote on the nomination of Jeffrey Sutton - whose states' rights advocacy has helped limit the scope of disability, age and race discrimination statutes - to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected Tuesday. Then Thursday, the Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on Carolyn Kuhl, whom George Bush wants to seat on the appellate court in California. As a Reagan administration lawyer, Kuhl argued hard for tax-exempt status for the racially discriminatory Bob Jones University...
...lecture circuit, I would leave school and come back the next day,” Murray says. “It was really a 24-hour thing, so it wasn’t like it was that much time, but it was hard to go away from campus for a day and be engrossed with something and then come back and have to pick up where you left...
...Washington, Kagan encountered such ideological battles when she clerked for the liberal Judge Abner Mikva on the D.C. Circuit, who clashed regularly with the leading conservative Circuit Judge Lawrence Silberman...