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Senate majority leader Bob Dole, disabled from war wounds to his right shoulder and arm, has protested. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II) says putting F.D.R. in a wheelchair "would be one of the most powerful parts of the memorial...
...tied to depleted stores of the brain chemical? Scientists who are looking into that possibility are worried that their work could be used to label troubled children as incorrigible and excuse the lack of services designed to help them. "It's almost impossible to discuss scientifically," says Dr. Frederick Goodwin, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health. "People always overinterpret the science in this area...
...pound division freshman Adam Griesemer advanced to the finals before bowing out to defending tournament champion Andy Goodwin of Springfield...
...film has drawn fire for its historical inaccuracies -- and, indeed, events spanning nearly three years have been telescoped into a few weeks, while the role of investigator Richard Goodwin has been vastly exaggerated. But the real problem is the easy Hollywood cliches into which history has been transformed. The Van Doren clan is a caricature of effete Waspishness, Goodwin a garden-variety TV-movie crusader. Herb Stempel, who blew the whistle on the scandal, is reborn as perhaps the most offensively stereotyped Jew in modern American cinema. To gauge the injustice, one has to go back to the actual tapes...
...Redford and company, however, the scandal foreshadows just about every mess from Vietnam to Watergate. Near the end of the film, after the congressional hearings have exposed the rigging, an associate congratulates | Goodwin. "For what?" he scoffs, upset that the top TV execs have denied any role in the affair. "I thought we were going to get television. The truth is, television is going to get us." It's the film's most disingenuous line. The bigwigs may have escaped punishment, but the scandals rocked TV as nothing before or since: quiz shows vanished from the air, ethical standards were...