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Levine joined the Review shortly after it was launched in 1963. Within a year, Vietnam would turn the literary journal into a political one as well, opening the door for Levine to produce the most trenchant protest art of the period. His caricature of Lyndon Johnson pulling up his shirt to reveal a Vietnam-shaped scar on his abdomen (a parody of a photo Johnson had posed for) was circulated around the world...
...inception until his death - presented Congress with a petition signed by more than 3 million people supporting a King holiday. The bill languished in Congress for eight years, unable to gain enough support until President Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia and the first Democratic President since Lyndon Johnson, vowed to support a King holiday. (See pictures from the life of Coretta Scott King...
When Hollywood wants to extend the life of one of its movie tough guys, expand his audience and give him a dose of humiliation, it pairs him with a kid. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and John Travolta have all endured this mid-career ordeal. Now it's Jackie Chan's turn, in the PG-rated The Spy Next Door. At 55, he is well past his prime as the Hong Kong martial-arts sensation who wowed the world by doing all his own stunts in the Project A, Police Story, Armour of God and Drunken Master...
...Johnson, of the Roosevelt Institute, says the single most important reform would be to force unregulated financial products, such as credit-default swaps (CDSs) and collateralized-debt obligations (CDOs), onto government-watched public exchanges. CDS contracts are widely blamed for the demise of insurer AIG. Johnson says that making the CDS, CDO and other markets like them more transparent would limit the ability of financial executives to take the extreme risks that can cause their firms to fail when markets go awry...
...need more supervision, more examination and much more enforcement of regulations that are already on the books," says Johnson. "But most of all, we need a system that punishes stock holders and managers before taxpayers...