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The tone of an Altman film - the desperate milling, the sense of isolation within a community, the urgency to no clear end - is a reflection of life on any movie set. Or in any political campaign (Tanner '88, the TV series he concocted with Garry Trudeau, plays now like a...
The New Frontier Award, which takes its name from an acceptance speech by John F. Kennedy at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, recognizes Americans under 40 years old who embody President Kennedy’s ideals about public service.
The professor who litigated this summer’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court case ruling that military commissions for Guantanamo Bay detainees violate Geneva Convention prohibitions lauded that decision at the Harvard Law Review’s annual Supreme Court Forum yesterday. Georgetown University law professor Neal K. Katyal, a...
But it turns out she was compiling a favor file of her own. Not only was she a prodigious fund raiser in a state that functions as a political ATM for Democratic candidates across the country, but she also helped bring the national convention to her city in 1984. In...
The plot of the African Archbishop's soap opera, which could be dubbed "As Milingo turns," has been twisting for years. Attentive viewers may remember that Milingo, who'd built a loyal international following for his passionate sermons and purported faith-healing prowess, shocked the Catholic Church in 2001 by...