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...white businessman. According to the film’s producers, the film is meant to highlight a bias in the American legal system with respect to prosecuting and executing minorities convicted of serious crimes. “We can’t tell you to sit back and enjoy the film, but we can tell you to sit back and think,” said co-producer Jim Lopes ’74 before the film. Hobley was exonerated in 2002 after evidence proved that he was a victim of police brutality and forced into a confession. Tarver was executed...
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams first encountered the Barbary States in the late 1780s, when they were American diplomats in Europe. They did not enjoy the experience. In 1786 they reported on a conversation with Tripoli's ambassador to Britain. He informed them that peace could be bought for 30,000 guineas (with a 3,000 tip for himself) and advised that Tunis would settle at the same rate, although he could not answer for Morocco or Algiers. This was far more than Jefferson and Adams had been authorized to spend. Jefferson had feared as much. "We ought...
Journalists enjoy gaffes as a slight taste of human reality at the banquet of artifice where they sup. But a small secret is that journalists don't mind spin either. A politician's ability to spin is a measure of his or her professionalism, which journalists respect. Furthermore, spin needs to be interpreted, which is the journalist's job. If politicians were totally truthful, political journalists would be out of business...
...Anything you can put on an mp3 player can be used as a ringback,” Tanjeloff said in an interview last night. “What we’re trying to do is create a phone service that is user-friendly and that people will enjoy using, something that has a function and purpose.” And starting next Wednesday, “Brring!” will offer users the option of donating their accrued earnings to the non-profit “Aid Darfur” campaign. The company will also play messages from...
...funny movie, but if you’re like me you’re going to identify with this film so hard that you’ll want some alcohol to blame the sobbing on. So crack open a bottle of your favorite local micro-brew and enjoy. 1. Drink every time someone is dressed in moody vintage clothing. 2. Drink that one time people in the movie drink bottles of Brooklyn beer. Because it’s like the movie is set in Brooklyn so even though Bujalski’s writing is all understated and nobody never actually...