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...Phoenix,” it seems that plastic surgery and film directing are not so different. The surgical team of director David Yates and screenwriter Michael Goldenberg performed beautifully, turning the fifth and flabbiest book of the “Harry Potter” series into the tightest, firmest, most attractive film...
...Despite Fielding's reference to "constitutional prerogatives," executive privilege is not actually mentioned in the Constitution and has been called "a constitutional myth" by legal historian Raoul Berger. President Eisenhower was the first to use the phrase and was its firmest proponent, according to Mark Rozell, a professor at George Mason University and the author of two books on executive privilege. "Eisenhower took a very strong stand, especially during the McCarthy hearings," he explains. When Senator Joseph McCarthy demanded that White House officials testify in 1954 about suspected communists, "Eisenhower responded that any man who testifies to Congress about what...
Despite the continuing revelations and uproar, Reagan fervently believes that his Administration can recover from this crisis, that there is still a reservoir of affection for him. Last week he took his firmest step yet toward coming to grips with the affair. Avoiding the befuddlement and bitterness that had marked his earlier statements on the scandal, he delivered a terse four-minute address from the Oval Office on Tuesday in which he 1) announced the choice of a distinguished new National Security Adviser; 2) urged the naming of an independent counsel to investigate the affair; 3) supported congressional requests...
...square with the memory of many CBS veterans, who considered Stanton one of the network's bulwarks of integrity. Fred Friendly, Murrow's longtime associate, admits that "the relationship between Murrow and Stanton was strained" but asserts that the CBS president later became one of the news division's firmest defenders: "He was willing to go to prison rather than submit outtakes of [the CBS documentary] The Selling of the Pentagon. " Stanton, who retired from CBS in 1971, has not seen the movie but says that, in general, "I feel negatively about docudramas." Despite the unflattering portrayal, he adds, Actor...
...beginning to realize that very few of my peers do. Even friends finding jobs through recruiting, applying to law school or looking at fellowships have expressed the same skepticism that I have. The truth is that none of us really know where we will end up, and even the firmest of plans fall through when we discover other passions and priorities. All we can do is explore our options and keep our minds open. That or have a nervous breakdown...