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...start he was skilled in finding young actors and locating their emotional acuity. Mulligan directed Paul Newman in his second TV appearance (Suspense, 1952), and three years later in the Vidal TV play The Death of Billy the Kid, which Newman replayed on the big screen as The Left Handed Gun. Steve McQueen, Sidney Poitier, Walter Matthau, Rosemary Harris and George C. Scott did potent early TV work under his guiding hand. Scott made his Broadway debut in the only play Mulligan directed, the 1958 Comes a Day. He was no slouch with veterans either, winning an Emmy...
...Peter Boehm, starting his second game in a row as classmate Keith Wright sits out with illness, led the long-distance charge, making seven out of his nine three-point attempts on his way to 23 points, a game high and a new career mark for him. His hot hand did not see many minutes in the second half due to foul trouble—he ended up fouling out with four minutes left in the game—but the Crimson shot well enough without him. The team shot 78-percent from downtown in the second half...
Retail sales may be sluggish this holiday season, but aside from theft, there's at last one ultra-cheap way to put more presents under the tree. Organizers behind the massive online freebie network known as Freecycle.org say that they have noticed a surge in new users looking for hand-me-downs and raw materials being given away on the nonprofit site, which has more than 6 million members around the globe. "People used to ask others in the network for luxury items," such as laptops and other high-tech gadgets, says Michelle Martinez, a Freecycle volunteer who oversees...
...hard to avoid the conclusion that this is agribusiness as usual. That said, there are reasons to be cautiously hopeful. Vilsack's spoken encouragingly about capping subsidies and using that money to drive a conservation agenda...On the other hand, he presided over the biggest expansion of feedlot agriculture in Iowa." - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and a sustainable agriculture advocate, on Vilsack's prospects for bringing about change, National Public Radio...
...information. Still, Woodward and Bernstein were clearly the most distinguished of the Watergate reporters, and their early attention to the story was critical to the failure of Nixon's cover-up. Their competitors, including those of us at TIME who worried each week whether the scoops we had in hand would be stolen away by a Woodward and Bernstein story, were intensely jealous of their sources. After their book All the President's Men revealed the existence of their secret source, speculation about the identity of Deep Throat, named playfully after a pornographic film of the era, became a Washington...