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...last three to four years, noir has become culturally rehabilitated. The recent success of L.A. Confidential is one example: the re-release of Purple Noon (based on Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, with hunky French actor Alain Delon) is another. In the world of books, James Ellroy's novels are selling well. Ross MacDonald's works have been reissued in a Vintage edition, and the Harvard Bookstore featured a compilation of crime novels of the '40s and '50s only a month or two ago. I am compelled to ask: why now? Why are people suddenly interested in noir...
These speakers include West; Patricia Williams, who is a professor at Columbia Law School; King biographer Taylor Branch; assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Bill L. Lee; NAACP Chair Julian Bond; former U.S. Ambassador to the UNAndrew Young and Dean of Students Archie C. EppsIII...
...jury agreed with the defendant--as have other juries in a few such backlash cases. The most famous was brought by Jerold Mackenzie, a former Miller Brewing executive, who claimed that the company wrongfully interfered with his employment status after a co-worker, Patricia Best, accused him of sexual harassment. He had recounted for Best an episode of Seinfeld on TV that indirectly referred to the clitoris, and then showed her the word in the dictionary. A jury gave him $26.6 million last summer...
Lamar Alexander, Muhammad Ali, Terry Anderson, Lauren Bacall, F. Lee Bailey, Anne Bancroft, Christiaan Barnard, Bill Bradley, William Bratton, Tom Brokaw, Donald Budge, Joseph Califano, Steve Case, Dick Cavett, Carol Channing, Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Kevin Costner, Walter Cronkite, Tom Cruise, Patricia Nixon Cox, Michael Deaver, Michael E. DeBakey, William DeVries, Joe DiMaggio, Jerry Falwell, Louis Farrakhan, Kelly Flinn, Jodie Foster, David Frost, Bill Gates, John Glenn, Mikhail Gorbachev, Billy Graham, Andrew Grove, Dorothy Hamill, Valerie Harper, Beth Heiden, Anita Hill, David Ho, Lee Iacocca, John Irving, Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jack Kemp, Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Nancy...
...kind not seen since the Lewinsky crisis began, and its tracks were marked by those two well-worn words: If true. ?If the evidence is true... I think this presidency will be over,? said Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). ?If it?s true, it?s sexual assault,? said Patricia Ireland, president...