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...Lone Man makes his way from Madrid to Seville and then into the countryside toward his wealthy target, American, aka the Man (Bill Murray, who starred in Jarmusch's lovely Broken Flowers), he encounters a cast of characters who trade boxes of matches with him and pass on more tidbits of instruction along with commentary on art and culture. There's Guitar (John Hurt), Mexican (Gael Garcia Bernal) and the most helpful of all, Blonde (Tilda Swinton), who is a fan of Jarmusch-style cinema. "The best films are like dreams you're never really sure...
...hard holdouts. We have so many friends who got married right before the election, and it was a really fun time. We went to a zillion parties. But I [could] see the writing on the wall, and I had a feeling that Prop. 8 was going to pass. It was a really crushing blow to our friends to go from this kind of high of exhilaration to this stunning defeat. So Lori and I feel we're going to wait until there's one marriage across the board, and it might be awhile. We just feel strongly about...
...Nearly lost his 1992 Senate race after feminists mobilized against him for grilling Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearings (he called her testimony "flat-out perjury"). In 2004, his remark that a Supreme Court nominee who opposed abortion rights wouldn't pass Senate confirmation almost cost him the chance to run the hearings...
...President to work with him effectively. Senate associate historian Donald Ritchie says you have to go all the way back to the dawn of F.D.R.'s second term in 1937 to find a President aligned with a filibuster-proof Senate majority that has comparable cohesion and potential to pass significant legislation. "Doing the filibuster at every whim to block us is not [an option], and that makes legislating a lot easier," says New York Democrat Charles Schumer. (See a day-by-day look at the first 100 days of the Obama Administration...
...days debating the finer points of the insult slap and waterboarding, shows how easily the search for justice can overshadow everything else. Obama is now at a juncture in his agenda where he will need to bring together as many lawmakers from both sides as he can to pass sweeping changes to the country's education, health care and environmental and energy systems. (See TIME's photos of presidential first dogs...