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...also with the loss of her 16-year-old son Wade 11 years ago in a car accident. "When you lose a child through an accident," she says, "you discover that you only have an illusion of control over your own fate. I've already let go of that myth, and that makes this process a lot easier...
...Like most of the earlier conspiracy thrillers, this one proceeds from two warring premises: a synoptic cynicism about the men who run things, and a dewy belief in the myth of the lone hero. You're to accept on faith that the high-level perps are both deeply malevolent and supremely competent. (Uh-huh. Then why can't they run a simple Iraq occupation?) In the Oliver Stone tradition - who killed JFK? Everybody! - the mischief-makers have infected all branches of power: the military, the CIA, the Senate, big business. "There's no head...
...Despite Fielding's reference to "constitutional prerogatives," executive privilege is not actually mentioned in the Constitution and has been called "a constitutional myth" by legal historian Raoul Berger. President Eisenhower was the first to use the phrase and was its firmest proponent, according to Mark Rozell, a professor at George Mason University and the author of two books on executive privilege. "Eisenhower took a very strong stand, especially during the McCarthy hearings," he explains. When Senator Joseph McCarthy demanded that White House officials testify in 1954 about suspected communists, "Eisenhower responded that any man who testifies to Congress about what...
Bring Home the Brave? Thanks to Michael Kinsley for engaging the myth that to question the validity of the Iraq war is to betray the troops in the field [March 5]. Equating support for soldiers with military escalation is insidious. True support would be to remove them from harm's way. But I take exception to your affirmation that the cause-to remove a dictator-was worthy. That's just as dishonest as saying we need to continue the war to support the troops. Is the civil war that we unleashed a noble cause? Or was the arrogant pretext...
Okay, buzzing disco-funk-punk-electro-warehouse children, prep for white irony all topped off in sweated-out curls, because “Myth Takes,” the latest from !!!, has landed. “Myth Takes” aspires to present !!! in all its diverse dance-inducing glory, but if the album proves anything, it’s the difficulty of successfully appropriating multiple influences to make something that both works and makes bodies work. From their name alone, !!! aspire to be all unexpected fun—or cultural pirates. The symbol ! is used to denote a mouth...