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...most of his time in Hollywood, Mann was a director for hire - that is, he was contracted to make movies he usually didn't write or produce. That helps explain why he was ignored by critics who can parse a movie's plot and sniff out its moral lesson but can't appreciate or write about what's actually on the screen. Mann put it up there handsomely, tellingly, and the great strength of Basinger's book (really, someone has to get it published here) is its ability to translate his pictures into her words. Mann received little of that...
...report noted that past presidents have used signing statements to “explain the president’s reasons for signing a bill into law,” but that all the presidents before Bush had only challenged a combined 600 laws...
...response, Ogletree said in an interview Tuesday that the president has a duty to “explain why he believes a law to be unconstitutional” so “that Congress has a chance to address the criticisms”—that is, the president must tell Congress why he believes the hypothetical anti-Greco provision is unconstitutional...
...region is peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Settle that, many believe, and economic development will proceed apace, extremist groups will lose their reason for being, and public support for violence will evaporate. Even if some of those claims are far-fetchedwhat, precisely, has Israel done that would explain the woeful economic performance of the Arab world for a generation?they are deeply held and widely shared. "Terrorism," British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the U.S. Congress in 2003, "will not be defeated without peace in the Middle East between Israel and Palestine. Here it is that the poison...
...Insisted on holding a boom box blaring In Your Eyes outside his bedroom window at night B) Sent letters over his fence in bags with rocks and screwdrivers inside C) Kept asking him to explain his character's motivation in Con Air D) Is really Jack Black in tights promoting Nacho Libre door to door...