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...With Borat, however, and Borat, my ethical reservations wilt beneath the giddy pleasure this film gave and gives me. It's the laugh that keeps on laughing. Accompanied by his obscenely obese producer Azamat Bagatov (Ken Davitian), Borat has come to the U.S. to make a documentary for his countrymen about the world's most powerful nation. He is a mass of homegrown superstitions (he brings with him "a jar of gypsy tears" to prevent AIDS) and prejudices (against Jews, whom he has apparently never encountered). Checking into a Manhattan hotel, he is accompanied by the manager into the elevator...
...trend is most pronounced at academically rigorous schools. "Ten years ago, this wasn't even on the radar," says Ken Fox, college and career counselor at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis, Mo. "Now it's the biggest thing going." Of 300 seniors at his school, 40 have already applied to colleges. At Cathedral High School in Indianapolis, 108 of 320 seniors have sent in applications, and a few already have admissions in hand...
...Ken Lay's death in July, it was assumed, meant the end of the criminal case against the former Enron chairman. But prosecutors want to change that. On Wednesday, they filed a a motion asking Judge Sim Lake to hold off on signing the paperwork vacating Lay's conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges until former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling is sentenced in late October. In the motion, prosecutors propose a new law that criminal cases not be abated when the defendant dies, as is current legal precedent. In an effort to also get a Congressional hearing on the proposal...
...Still, some doubt that Congress will pass the new law - and, even if it does, whether such a law could be made retroactive to apply to Lay. "Even this Congress is not going to be party to an attempt to criminalize Ken Lay," says attorney David Berg, author of The Trial Lawyer, What it Takes to Win "when the law has declared him innocent...
...liberal. Bush kissed Lieberman after the 2005 State of the Union address, bestowing his gratitude for the Senator's support of an immoral war. The President shows no sign of awareness, much less remorse. Lieberman's complicity is saddening, since he used to be one of the good guys. Ken Bley Northfield, Illinois...