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...hearing room was a reminder of Holder's uncommon roots: there was his wife Sharon Malone, a prominent obstetrician whose late sister Vivian Malone Jones faced down George Wallace to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963; his brother Billy, who became a New York Port Authority cop; his three young children, who may never know the indignity of racial profiling; and his mother Miriam, 85, who brought up two sons to revere the law. "We taught them to help where you can and right the wrongs that you see," she says. As in the old days, that...
Some of the friction could just be cosmetic to appease both the progressive base and moderates. "It's the old routine of bad cop (Pelosi), good cop (Obama); partisanship vs. bipartisanship," says Stephen Wayne, a political science professor at Georgetown University. "It is also a bargaining tool to limit what the Republicans can expect from the legislation in exchange for their support...
...action choreography that has a low plausibility factor, I'd guess that Taken means to be a critique of a man as fascinated by his daughter's endangered purity as her predators are - and, by extension, of the thriller genre's obsessive hero. Back in the '70s, a cop film mined the similarities between the man with the badge and the criminal he hunted. That was The French Connection, whose wary sympathy for, and exposé of, the cop played by Gene Hackman won the movie an Oscar for Best Picture. But this actual French movie has nothing more...
...Sounds like a good cop, but SEC followers, like Columbia law professor John Coffee, says she'll need an even tougher bad cop, too, if she wants to succeed in restoring faith in the agency, and the economic system. (See the top 10 financial crisis buzzwords...
...being overseen by the U.K.'s Human Fertilization and Embryo Authority, a government watchdog group. The agency is generally supportive of the procedure and indeed has been looking for a way to reduce the incidence of multiple births among IVF families. Nonetheless, the fact that there is a moral cop on the beat gives some comfort to the procedure's critics. For the unnamed 41-year-old, little of this matters. In two months, she'll be changing diapers...