Word: miranda
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...Miranda in Miranda's sight Is old and gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty...
...comedy-actress categories were more routine - Patricia Heaton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Debra Messing, yada yada yada - but it was nice to see "Sex and the City's" Cynthia Nixon nominated as Miranda for supporting, and not just Kim Cattrall for the ever-more-drag-queen-like Samantha. (But Lauren Graham, denied a comedy-actress spot for "Gilmore Girls," was robbed. Not only is she so cool and bracing she should wear a speared olive on her head, but given the rat-a-tat hour-long "Gilmore" scripts, she may well have to memorize more dialogue per episode than actors...
...works. Evil is knowable, crime solvable, justice swift and attainable. The Wire and The Shield arrive like an unconscious (and just as American) response: It's O.K. to doubt, to question, to acknowledge the bad among the good. Decades of cop shows have schooled us on our Miranda rights, chief among them the right to remain silent. Cheers to these cable cops for exercising their right to make some noise...
...Sept. 24, Pomey voluntarily went to the HUPD station and, after being advised of her Miranda rights, told HUPD Detective Sgt. Richard Mederos that “it was Randy Gomes, a close friend of hers, who had been diverting the money,” according to the statement...
...scholar never shook his nickname, Whizzer, much to his ire. Appointed to the court in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy after serving as Robert Kennedy's deputy Attorney General, White consistently supported civil rights but took conservative stands on some of the era's divisive issues, dissenting in Miranda v. Arizona, which required police to read criminal suspects their rights, and siding with the antiabortion bloc in Roe v. Wade...