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...Henry (Eric Bana), who works in a Chicago public library, is in the reading room when a woman he's never met walks up to him and says dewily, "I've loved you all my life." She's Clare (Rachel McAdams), a young artist, and in her past - Henry's future - he has visited her and won her undying devotion. Henry, you see, has the gift or curse of time-traveling: disappearing from one temporal and spatial reality to pop up, naked, in another. This science-fiction trope will be familiar to fans of The Terminator, but Henry...
...jobs are often doled out as rewards for past favors. Mary Patrice Brown came to hold her job as the Department of Justice's top ethics cop in a slightly less complaisant way. Two years ago, when Brown was a federal prosecutor, she squared off against then private attorney Eric Holder in a tense plea negotiation that cost Holder's client, Chiquita Brands International, a $25 million fine and an admission that it had paid off Colombian terrorists to protect its lucrative banana-growing business there. (Read "Terrorism and Bananas in Colombia...
Brown is probably unwelcome at Chiquita, but the door to the Justice Department under now Attorney General Eric Holder swung wide open. Since April, Brown has been working for Holder as head of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). Long considered a DOJ backwater, OPR assumed a higher profile in the final years of the Bush Administration amid widespread allegations of attorney misconduct, from the use of political litmus tests in hiring to improper firing of U.S. Attorneys. (Read "Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days...
Without big national platforms and regular media access, far-right parties rely heavily on door-to-door campaigning and local meetings. The bigger parties ignore such old-fashioned techniques at their peril, says Eric Pickles, chairman of Britain's Conservative Party. "You've got a kind of [mainstream politician] representing those estates who didn't grow up on them, doesn't know them well and visits like a political tourist." Mainstream parties have "got to re-engage the population," he says. "You can't write the people off who voted BNP as all being Nazis. It's neglect...
Annual Medical Spending Attributable to Obesity By Eric A. Finkelstein, Justin G. Trogdon, Joel W. Cohen and William Dietz...