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...antithesis of the brash, grating Scalia. "He's conservative, but he's not a zealot at all," says Paul Fishman, a Democrat and attorney from New York City, who worked under Alito at the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey, when Alito strove to put away corrupt politicians and drug dealers--all while wooing his future wife Martha-Ann, a research librarian in the same office. (The couple have two children, a son, 19, and a daughter...
...received from the lawyer right after hanging up, telling him to ditch the phone and divulging her real whereabouts. Awesome. And then, if you look hard enough, comes the social insight. The viewer is comfortable rooting for, among others, a convicted car thief and a deposed don against corrupt law enforcement and an oil-greed government conspiracy. Dostoyevsky this ain’t, but it’s more thought-provoking than the average Fox drivel. So, if next week a prisoner is made to eat his own hair or the vice-president tries to have the prison burned down...
...SQUIRM’Given the compelling nature of Wright’s subject, it is doubly disappointing that the author sullies his work by crossing the line from fact into fiction. In an interview, Wright said that his occasional fictionalization “doesn’t corrupt the material in any way I see.” And ultimately, our knowledge of this historical episode does not diminish because we read that Kenneth B. Day, Class of 1922, “squirmed uncomfortably” as he sat before the court—even though he might have...
...good than harm. This opinion is the result of a sort of catch-22. Even when the ballot initiatives are flawed, sometimes there is simply nowhere else for Californians to look for effective government. Totally controlled by Democrats and devoid of any competition, the legislature is solidified, bordering on corrupt. So, if the legislature does not want to address an issue, it doesn’t have to; there’s no pressure from within, and so special interests turn to referenda. Quite simply, something must be done. One solution is Proposition 77, a ballot measure which will have...
...They did so on such a scale that it changed the world. "Global criminal activities are transforming the international system, upending the rules, creating new players, and reconfiguring power in international politics and economics," writes Na?m. These new players are counterfeiters, shady financiers, snakeheads, terrorists, corrupt officials and other fast-adapters now flourishing beyond the reach of authorities. They have even redefined geography: as governments' control over the flow of people, goods and information weakens, opportunists have turned places like Cambodia, Liberia and parts of Russia into "geopolitical black holes" where illicit networks can operate unchecked...