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...plenty of friends left in Washington; it's just that he was finding, as every President finds, that many of them lose their minds. House Speaker Sam Rayburn warned him about it: "Sycophants will stand in the rain a week to see you and will treat you like a king," he said. "They'll come sliding in and tell you you're the greatest man alive - but you know and I know...
Every President needs those people who tell them they ain't the king. Kennedy talked about "the poison of the presidency," the way proximity to power could warp the judgment of even the wisest allies. It's one reason Kennedy's father wanted him to make his brother Attorney General and why First Ladies wield power that can never be adequately measured by the list of causes they support. (See pictures of Michelle Obama behind the scenes...
...studio estimates, the James Cameron enviro-war fantasy won the weekend with $36 million, nearly double the take of its nearest competitor, the sci-fi epic Legion. In its sixth week out of the chute, Avatar made more money, way more, than any picture on the post-Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, and almost all of those films were in their first days of release. (See the top 10 James Cameron moments...
...million budget. At this rate, Rob Marshall's star-clogged downer won't even earn as much as a modest CGI sci-fi feature released early this fall: 9 will outgross Nine. The Weinstein Co. will suffer a plague of red ink, while Cameron is declared king of the universe...
...could unintentionally reinforce the view that while ethnicity is a product of culture and society, race represents something else - a set of characteristics inherent to a certain type of person (e.g., black people are athletic; Asians are smart). (See TIME's special on Dr. Martin Luther King...