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...Mulligan served in World War II and attended Fordham University before entering the TV industry in its New York infancy. He was a prominent member of that first generation, the so-called Golden Age of Television, that birthed directors who would win Oscars (Sydney Pollack, George Roy Hill, Franklin J. Schaffner, William Friedkin) or be nominated for them (John Frankenheimer, Norman Jewison, Arthur Penn, Arthur Hiller, Robert Altman). Directing scripts by such comers as Gore Vidal, Reginald Rose and Horton Foote, he learned a reverence for the word and for the midcentury liberalism it embodied and ratified. Solid, non-Communist...
...writ of habeas corpus available to Guantánamo detainees, this is precisely how those detainees are to be tried, regardless of venue. To downsize a constitutional right into a technicality in the field of American jurisprudence is equivalent to considering gravity a technicality in the field of physics. Franklin Morse II, SUTTONS BAY, MICH...
...writ of habeas corpus available to Guantánamo detainees, this is precisely how those detainees are to be tried, regardless of venue. To downsize a constitutional right into a technicality in the field of American jurisprudence is equivalent to considering gravity a technicality in the field of physics. Franklin Morse II, SUTTONS BAY, MICH...
...Richard Nixon, no less than David Frost, was a TV personality. Every U.S. president from John Kennedy on has had to be one: the nation's talk-show host, defining its agenda and character. (Franklin D. Roosevelt created the same niche on radio with his Fireside Chats.) TV stardom is a matter of connecting with the masses by peddling an agreeable personality. That's a challenge for which the brainy, devious Nixon was ill-suited...
Most informed people acknowledge that the financial mess began not with Republican deregulation but with liberal social engineering - exploited by Wall Street, to be sure, and unchecked by either party. A Republican House helped pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the most sweeping regulatory bill since the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt. If liberals rule unconstrained, we won't recognize our country in 30 years. Lori Zimmerman, RED BANK...