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Traumatized by his wife's rape-murder, Leonard (Guy Pearce) loses all short-term memory. Investigating her death, he takes Polaroids of everyone he meets. But his condition prevents him from constructing a coherent account of a day in his life, let alone the crime in question. The film takes this attempt to shatter narrative into little pieces about as far into incoherence as it can go; yet it is also full of odd, hypnotic menace...
...position is one of the most prestigious lectureships in the nation. Past recipients have included Leonard Bernstein '39, e.e. cummings '15, T.S. Eliot '10, Robert Frost, Harold Bloom, Lionel Trilling, Jorge Luis Borges and Aaron Copeland. The most recent Norton Professor was musicologist Joseph W. Kerman, who lectured...
...GRAY LADY (2/18/01): The New York Times publishes a Bill Clinton op-ed piece called "My Reasons for the Pardons." In the column, the former president defends his decision to grant pardons to Marc Rich and his partner Pincus Green, and cites the approval of prominent Republican attorneys Leonard Garment, Bradford Reynolds and Lewis Libby. The three men vehemently deny ever expressing approval for the pardon. A growing number of observers suggest that Clinton's explanation may have done more harm than good...
Clinton pleads bewilderment over it all. If he were trading pardons for money, he asks his friends, wouldn't he have helped out his DreamWorks buddies, who were pleading on behalf of jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier? "David Geffen will barely talk to me!" he says. His clumsy reactions reveal how heavily he relied upon his palace guards. All that's left of the Clinton spin machine is a succession of temporary press secretaries and an ad hoc group of advisers. He is no longer able to change the subject with a merry economic report or poll-tested Executive...
...LEONARD PELTIER Easiest pardon to refuse. Though Native American groups and celebrity advocates made lots of noise, he is in prison, serving consecutive life sentences for murdering two FBI agents. End of discussion...