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...time (in the West), Eastwood was the grizzled loner, using the Old Testament playbook to clean up Tombstone or San Francisco. Here he's surrounded by other gents of a certain age: hotdogging fly-boys of the '50s named Hawk (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry (Donald Sutherland) and Tank (James Garner) who were pioneers in Air Force research but got passed over for the first U.S. astronaut program. An old Soviet satellite is about to crash to earth, threatening humanity; since Frank built the technology the Russkies swiped, his expertise is needed. He insists on going up to fix the damn...
Does the vice presidential part of the ticket really matter? Franklin Roosevelt chose his vice presidents for reasons of practical politics, with an (ultimately misplaced) confidence in his own immortality. Thus John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner signed on because F.D.R. needed the Texas delegation's votes at the 1932 convention. (Garner turned into an irascibly seditious anti-Roosevelt; at cabinet meetings, Roosevelt would say, "We can talk today - the Vice President isn't here." He ran against Roosevelt in the 1940 convention and was replaced by Henry Wallace...
...penchant for speeding? Some help is on the way. The National Motorist Association is offering to pay your tickets for you--for a small fee. Members pay a minimum of $5 a month and get $100 worth of fines paid by the NMA. If you tend to garner traffic fines or find parking tickets piling up on your windshield, then for $50 you can receive $1,000 of coverage. Plus, the NMA is so open-minded it will even cover drunk-driving fines. But be careful: that doesn't give you license to drive drunk or recklessly...
Despite the publicity that these cases may garner, members of Harvard's Office of the General Counsel (OGC) say that overall these suits take up little of the lawyers' time...
...After 15 minutes of swimming, her Harvard teammates were still cheering wildly and Gustafsson still churning until the final length when she out-touched Martin by six hundredths of a second. Harvard had its first champion of the season, and it took a team effort to garner that distinction...