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...privilege did. Many of them forswore their trust funds, dodged the draft, grew their hair, switched from beer to pot. But in a way, the opposite happened with W. He may have been the family rebel, by their standards, but even from the earliest days, he was also the protector, fiercely defending his dad. His father ran for the Senate in Texas in 1964, opposing the civil rights bill and supporting Barry Goldwater all the way. His opponent, Senator Ralph Yarborough, lost no chance to paint Bush as a preppy-come-lately, not one of us. "Elect a Senator from...
...phenotypic spectrum of the trait (for example, in BPAD from mild depression to rapid cycling BPAD)? Must a critical threshold be reached for manifestation of the illness? Even if a person has all of the genes that code for a disorder might its expression be prevented or mitigated by protector genes (These genes manufacture factors that can switch off the genes that are doing the damage)? Genes of this type are already known to be important in the expression of BPAD, though how big a role they play is anyone's guess. Dwarves born in to families where BPAD...
...plot, familiar from the 1964 epic The Fall of the Roman Empire, is this: in A.D. 180, Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) is ailing. He anoints his best general, Maximus (Crowe), a man whose motto is "Strength and Honor," as Protector of Rome until it can again become a republic. Before announcing his decision, Marcus informs his son Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), who lusts to be Emperor. Commodus is displeased by the news; he smothers Marcus in his bosom, murdering him with a filial embrace, and proclaims himself Emperor. In short order, the nasty boy has swiped Maximus' job, ordered...
...Apple was a quiet Iranian film, released last year at the New York Film Festival. The documentary about twin 12-year old girls, imprisoned in their home from birth, took the world by surprise. The girls' father, their malevolent "protector," contends in the film that he is shielding his daughters from the forbidden fruit that will lure them away from the right path. The twins flounder, so developmentally and emotionally stunted that they can barely speak...
...Beyond the usual allegations and denials, though, the case may contain some particular problems. Unless it can be proved that a vast right-wing conspiracy forced the Northrop Grumman staffers into lie under oath, it might be hard to convince the public that a group of pocket-protector-wearing techies had anything to gain by fabricating allegations. Adding to the administration's load are claims by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, whose $90 million civil suit filed against the White House led to the DOJ investigation, that Justice took over the case simply to delay the civil action until...