Word: cooler
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Expert reaction to the rulings is considerably cooler. "Both decisions were wrong," says University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Paul Bender. "If anything, we citizens need more protection, not less." The Harlow decision is expected to have broad impact; scholars suggest that the Nixon ruling was noteworthy mostly on a theoretical level. Says Bender: "It has very little practical application. The chances of being able to prove a case against the President were always very small." Nevertheless, some experts welcome the ruling. Says Duke Law Professor William Van Alstyne: "I do not want a President of the United States to have...
...Stop & Smell the Roses, the recent album of fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, 41. Then Paul decided that what the package needed was a brief video musical to go with the tunes. With Ringo's wife Barbara Bach, 35, and Linda McCartney, 39, he and Ringo made The Cooler, an eleven-minute featurette set in a futuristic prison policed entirely by women. Cooler stars Starr as a habitual escapee, with McCartney hamming his way through three roles, including one with dyed blond hair. Says Co-Director Lol Creme, assaying his employers' on-screen talents: "Ringo and Barbara have...
...Community, she is reserving her other options. She could, as urged by some angry members of her own Conservative Party, withhold part of Britain's future contributions to the budget, an act of defiance that ultimately would lead to Britain's political isolation from Europe. Assuming cooler heads prevail in London, Britain is likely to return to the bargaining table this week to assess the damage to its interests and those of its European partners. A showdown in the Falklands was enough for the moment...
...cooler view of Reaganomics
...House, had seen a lot of frustrating football this fall. Standing by a pre-season promise to supply champagne if his Bellboys managed to score, he was down behind the Stadium for every game, bubbly in tow. And, by golly, as Bill might say, they finally emptied that picnic cooler yesterday, after Harlan Levine blasted his way into the endzone on the last play of the year...