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Julia is one of these sad, seemingly defective toys that manages to keep running after the battery's died. She swallows each drink as if it contains an acid that will cauterize what wounds her inside; or she could be embracing the habit because it brings on oblivion. Half the time she doesn't know the owner of the car or couch where she's been sleeping off her latest stupor. It might be her recovering-alcoholic friend Mitch (Saul Rubinek), who keeps trying to straighten her out. Or it might be her neighbor Elena (Kate del Castillo...
...judges are the kings, the lawyers are the wizards, and you’re the warrior,” Tenenbaum recalls Nesson saying that morning. “You have an ox that they’re trying to get, and you’re trying to keep them from getting your...
...line poker, recording one’s conversations, blogging personal e-mails, downloading and file-sharing, and marijuana. “There is a very close relationship with the exercise of authority to force kids not to click on the net, and the exercise of the authority to keep them from smoking marijuana,” Nesson tells me in his office, drawing a couple of the threads together. “They both are articulations of an authoritarian state in which the law is being used by the people who’ve figured out how to use influence...
It’s a casual attitude that is on full display in the classroom, where he has been known to keep his e-mail open on the projector screen during class and ask students to grade their own classmates’ papers. At a recent meeting of one of his spring “American Jury” classes, Nesson sat in the audience watching as a group of his students showed a clip from the popular reality show “Survivor” and then conducted a mock trial based on the show?...
...while he has spent the past two-plus years reaching out to Islamic leaders, Benedict has subtly tried to keep alive the hard questions he posed at the German university. Benedict has expanded on this formula since landing Friday in the moderate Muslim kingdom of Jordan, the first stop on his eight-day Holy Land pilgrimage. He told King Abdullah II upon his arrival in Amman that he has "deep respect" for Islam, and on Saturday he was welcomed in the country's largest mosque and gave another fascinating - if less radioactive - philosophical treatise. (See pictures chronicling the reign...