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...Marta Miranda, who works as a housekeeper at Harvard Business School, discussed her frustration at not being allowed to work full-time...
This, apparently, is what all the really bad bosses are wearing these days. Filming began last weekend on the movie adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, a roman à clef penned by a former assistant to Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour. In the movie, MERYL STREEP plays Miranda Priestly, the temperamental, overweening editor of a fictional fashion glossy called Runway--a character based loosely on Wintour. But the movie's stylists did away with the fashion queen's dark bob and sunglasses, reportedly to make the character sexier, more provocative and not so devilish. Or maybe they thought Wintour...
...report and whether the recall was a prelude to the FEMA chief's resignation. Afterward, Brown told the Associated Press he planned to go home and get "a stiff margarita and a good night's sleep." --By Jeremy Caplan. With reporting by Timothy J. Burger, Rita Healy and Carolina Miranda...
...ordered a manual recount of the ballots in the presidential race. But Rehnquist didn't win them all, and his first years on the court were often spent in lonely dissents. And over the years, he mellowed. In 2000, he angered conservatives by personally penning the opinion upholding Miranda v. Arizona, the decision requiring police to read those they take into custody their rights, a ruling he had earlier savaged. Rehnquist took his job very seriously, writing books and donning special judicial robes with raised gold stripes. But his greatest skill was unseen. In an increasingly fractious political era--mirrored...
...Rehnquist's conservatism mellowed over the years. His early 8-1 dissents, so provocatively right-wing in tone, deliquesced in later years into establishmentarian opinions defending many precedents-even liberal ones. For example, he angered conservatives in 2000 when he personally wrote the opinion upholding Miranda v. Arizona, the decision requiring police to read those they take into custody their rights, a ruling Rehnquist had savaged over the years. "Miranda has become embedded in routine police practice to the point where the warnings have become part of our national culture," Rehnquist wrote in an opinion that the fiery young Rehnquist...