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John Warner, with his lantern jaw, double-breasted suits and stentorian voice, has always looked the part of distinguished Senator. But for much of his three decades in the Senate, his actual record as a lawmaker was a ledger of modest and narrow accomplishments, mostly related to defense bills. In the past five years, however, the Republican has become one of the Senate's most influential members, thanks to a readiness to strike compromises on a host of high-profile issues ranging from co-sponsoring the anti-torture Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 to anchoring the "Gang of 14" bipartisan...
BROKEBACK MARRIAGE n. Thanks to Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal and their celebrated screen tragedy, there's now a term to describe a union between a gay man and a straight woman or a gay married man having an affair...
...only the future of engineering but also of liberal arts at the College. We may be gaining a first-rate engineering program, but, to put it simply, something is also being lost in the process, and it is a poor calculus that ignores the left side of the ledger...
...first-round opponent was No. 43 Purdue. The Boilermakers had never made it past the first round, but they handled the favored Crimson in a 4-2 decision, leading to Harvard’s second first-round upset loss in three years. On the individual side of the ledger, Wang fell in the first round of the NCAA singles championship and the Anderson/O’Riain combo met with similar disappointment in losing to Florida’s Whitney Benik and Alexis Gordon in the first round. Despite the team’s inability to advance on the national...
...Candy (which opens in Australia this week), the camera doesn't lie. When Dan is told he is to become a father, his face, caught in the light of a window, floods with tenderness. Ledger appears to act only when his character must-to hustle for the couple's next fix. Otherwise his performance is fakery-free. As the sun Dan orbits, Abbie Cornish carries the same dreaminess she first displayed in Somersault. If she never quite plumbs Candy's depths, that's because she remains in Dan's eyes an ideal. Also directing their gaze is Svengali figure Casper...