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Politically in the ’50s everything was a mess. Nationally we were subjected to dreadful Senator Joseph McCarthy who exploited fear of the Soviet Union for political advantage. Television was in its infancy and could only be viewed in bars. Senator McCarthy conducted hearings on un-American activities in the Department of the Army live on television, a first-ever event. These hearings were a magnet for students who were appalled by what was widely viewed as a witch-hunt. Interestingly, “Intensive Russian” was a popular course; students were optimistic that understanding...
...fielding one of the most resourceful and thorough biographers around - his 1995 exposé of Jeffrey Archer was practically the case for the prosecution that put the British author-politician behind bars in 2001. Through interviews with more than 250 colleagues, friends (and many ex-friends), Crick exposes the mess of contradictions, shenanigans and charms of the man known always to his players as the Boss. Ferguson, now 60, grew up in the shadow of the shipyard his family had worked in for generations in Govan, a district of Glasgow where the running battles of Catholic-Protestant sectarianism and workers...
...gets less and more than he bargained for. There's only one attractive woman to hit on, but she introduces him, via a picnic, to her best pal's son Marcus (a marvelously uncute Nicholas Hoult). He's bullied at school, and his mom (Toni Collette) is a mess, clinging to an outmoded hippie lifestyle and suicidally inclined. The kid sees in detached and manipulative Will a surrogate father whose isolation matches his own. Maybe together they can mobilize themselves and join the human race...
...infamous disappearance of 5-year-old foster child Rilya Wilson--and the fact that it took Florida's Department of Children and Families 15 months to notice she was gone--is the most egregious example of the mess the agency is in. Here's another: DCF has spent eight years and some $170 million developing a computer system to track the children in its care better--and it still doesn't work. HomeSafenet took five years to plan, and then no contractor could be found to implement it. DCF itself introduced the first phase, which was met by complaints that...
...results were a testament to Pollock’s genius beyond the mere technical means of creation—while the first few go-rounds looked “really beautiful,” according to Mancusi-Ungaro, by the third layer “it became a total mess...