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Laura Linney has been down this road before. It was 1998, and The Truman Show was being heaped with critical praise. By the time Oscar season rolled around, however, the film had lost much of its heat. Truman received a handful of nominations, but Linney was denied a nod for...
A transition is actually two character tests, one public, one personal--the one we praise and the one we really watch. We celebrate the peaceful transition of power in a democracy; and then we sit back and judge how the players perform--how graceful the losers, how gracious the winners...
The senators' comments to Ashcroft fluctuated wildly between invective and praise: Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, declared, "I find Senator Ashcroft's record to be extremely troubling," while South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond croaked out his support. Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, told Ashcroft, "I think you are perfect...
Laura Linney has been down this road before. It was 1998, and The Truman Show was being heaped with critical praise. By the time Oscar season rolled around, however, the film had lost much of its heat. Truman received a handful of nominations, but Linney was denied a nod for...
So is it possible that all these years the conservatives were really using "activism" to mean, literally, active? Could that be why Justice Thomas has been singled out for praise? Is it possible that the judges conservatives most admire are nonactivist to the point of being, well, inert? Or maybe...