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...scheming to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder, a diverse coalition of local, state and national politicians has called on him to step down. The state legislature on Monday took the first steps to start impeachment proceedings, and state attorney general Lisa Madigan has appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court to invoke an obscure law to declare Blagojevich unfit (at least temporarily) for office. Over the weekend, there were media reports that Blagojevich could resign as early as Monday. But late Sunday, his spokesperson denied any such thing, and others insisted that...
...national attention. On Sunday, President-elect Barack Obama acknowledged the workers' situation, saying, "I think these workers, if they have earned their benefits and their pay, then these companies need to follow through on those commitments." The Rev. Jesse Jackson appeared at the sit-in. Illinois' attorney general, Lisa Madigan, announced that her office planned to investigate various aspects of Republic's operations. On Monday, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich held a quickly organized press conference at the plant and vowed to ask a federal court to enforce federal guidelines. He also said the state would sever business dealings with Bank...
...trying to stop an outbreak of bubonic plague in Elia Kazan's Panic in the Streets, and the head of a psychiatric institution - not one of the patients - in Vincente Minnelli's Cobweb. The best role in his mature years was as the cop in Madigan, a Don Siegel policier that precursed Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry films. Widmark also played the role in a '70s TV series...
...context of inter-faith relations. Religious experts say that Catholicism and Shi'a Islam have a surprisingly similar structure and approach to their different faiths. "What you have in Iran is a strong academic tradition, with both philosophical and mystical aspects - in many ways like Catholicism," says Father Daniel Madigan, a Jesuit scholar of islam, and a member of the Vatican's commission for religious relations with Islam who helped arrange for Khatami's visit. There is also a clerical hierarchy in Shi'ism that is absent in other forms of Islam. Madigan notes that Iranians have long studied other...
...city, Reese Holdin (Zooey Deschanel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) returns after many years to her suburban childhood home and estranged father, Don (Ed Harris, “A History of Violence”). A book editor (Amy Madigan, “Pollock”) has offered her $100,000 for the love letters her famous father wrote her equally famous and recently deceased mother. There Reese meets an English grad student (Amelia Warner, “Aeon Flux”) and wannabe Christian-rock musician (Will Ferrell), both of whom...