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From 1939 to 1966, the Duke and Pappy made 14 films together. This package contains eight of their burliest, including The Searchers, that towering, troubling essay on race, sex and Manifest Destiny. It also has Wayne's starmaking turn in Stagecoach and the late-'40s cavalry films Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. All these westerns constitute a romantic first draft of American expansionist history, with Wayne as the surly Moses, urging his settlers on toward the promised land...
There are all kinds of reasons why the Duke rape case landed center stage two months ago and has stayed there ever since. In the early days, Mike Nifong, the prosecutor who was up for reelection on May 2 (he won) was accused of an excess of zeal, not to mention an obsession with media visibility, in the days leading up to the arrest of two members of the Duke Lacrosse team...
...various skilled defense lawyers hired by Duke players to change the climate that Nifong worked to establish at the outset. Their efforts to sway the views of potential jurors affects the larger audience as well. They are not interested in disquisitions on the case as a parable about race or class or privilege. But they do have an interest in conducting a seminar on the rights of the accused in a democracy: we're all equal under the law, justice is blind, those accused are innocent until proven guilty, the constitution guarantees a right to a speedy trial...
...campus. Abiding uncertainty does not make for a gripping TV show. But somehow in these very public cases that are tried in the court of public opinion long before they reach the court of law, we lower our standards too easily. Maybe the conflict and confusion surrounding the Duke case will make us watch a bit more skeptically, suspend judgment a while longer, the next time either the prosecutors or the defense try to persuade us to render a verdict before a trial has even begun...
...simultaneous raids in Virginia Friday, at Foggo's executive suite and his house, are part of the continuing investigation surrounding former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who admitted to accepting bribes from defense contractors in November. Both the CIA inspector general and the Justice Department have been digging into the relationship between Foggo and defense contractor Brent Wilkes, who is known to be the person identified as "co-conspirator No. 1" in Cunningham's guilty plea...