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...interpretation of the Solomon Amendment is “clearly not what Congress had in mind.”The Harvard professors had asked the court to avoid a constitutional showdown by adopting an alternative interpretation of the Solomon Amendment. In doing so, the professors pursued a novel legal tactic in a court battle that raged for more than two years. But the Harvard professors’ tactic did not sway their former student Roberts—nor did it convince any of the five other justices who attended Harvard Law.The Solomon Amendment requires that schools receiving federal funds must...
...rest is a fairly stately, sometimes stilted evocation of antique attitudes and older, better movies. The torpid pace and expertly muted cinematography (by Caleb Deschanel) inevitably suggest the fading fragrance of those flowers Fante described. Ask the Dust is the ghost of a cult novel; it can't bring itself to life...
MARKUS ZUSAK For theenjoyment of your more ambitious young readers, a 552-page novel about a girl named Liesel living with her foster family in Nazi Germany, narrated by Death. But wait. If you can fight your way past the rather challenging first few pages, you will find that Liesel, whose hobby is stealing books, especially stealing banned books from the Nazis, is a heroine worth fighting for, and that Death is actually a pretty cool guy to hang out with ("I like this human idea of the grim reaper," he says, "I like the scythe"). Zusak doesn...
That a government should literally poison its citizens, and that a terrorist should be considered a hero, is a pretty nervy premise for a mainstream film. But that's dystopic fiction for you. (In his novel Winter Kills, Richard Condon posited that the brains behind the J.F.K. assassination was--Joe Kennedy!) These days, with many millions around the world seeing every evil in Bush and Cheney, a film like Vendetta is, at least, timely. And if the villains are the big guys, the hero can be a terrorist--or should we call V an insurgent...
Grownup child star Macaulay Culkin's semiautobiographical, stream-of-consciousness novel, Junior, comes out this month...