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After more than 40 years in the Senate, Ted Kennedy, 71, is still the icon of American liberalism. Yet he has also been at the center of recent attempts to bridge the party divide over issues ranging from education to prescription-drug benefits. TIME's Matthew Cooper talked to him about the art of compromise, as well as his famous family...
...owner was wealthy San Francisco car dealer Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), who lost his son in an accident and his marriage in the tragedy's aftermath. His trainer was the terminally taciturn Tom Smith (Chris Cooper), who had a flinty sympathy for damaged and derided horseflesh. His principal rider was Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire), too big and too angry to be a great jockey, but a man who saw something of his unpromising yet ever striving self in Seabiscuit...
HIGH NOON. Part of the Brattle’s “Films of the ’50s” series, High Noon (1952) is a classic Western justice film directed by Fred Zinnemann. Marshall Will Kane (Gary Cooper) is ready to retire and leave town to spend the rest of his life with his wife Amy (Grace Kelly). But Kane’s intentions are delayed when he receives news that a deadly outlaw he sent to prison is due to arrive on the noon train. Everyone knows the outlaw has come to seek revenge on the sheriff...
...House, however, doesn't like the idea of Joseph's heading to the Hill. A senior Administration official tells TIME that "we're going to continue to work with [Congress], but nobody's testifying. We're ruling out testifying." Robert Joseph's war may be just beginning. --By Matthew Cooper. With Elaine Shannon, Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
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...