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...Congress did big things, like Medicare and the Voting Rights Act, as a matter of course. Key Congressmen were known as "bulls," and they didn't look to the White House for permission slips or marching orders. Dingell's first oath of office, in 1956, was administered by Sam Rayburn, whose power is memorialized in the congressional office building bearing his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Auto Insider Takes on Climate Change | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...define her character. She will have to broaden her circle, trust her colleagues and take to heart the words of the man who managed to hold the job longer than anyone else in history. "You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you," Sam Rayburn once said, "unless you know how to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pelosi Learns to Follow, Not Just Lead | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

...vampire and a steamy love scene between Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve. Since then, Tony Scott has audaciously continued to hijack mainstream film. Now, he is reunited with Crimson Tide costar Denzel Washington for the story of Creasy, an alcoholic former Special Forces operative recruited by his old friend Rayburn (Christopher Walken) to guard Pita (Dakota Fanning), the young daughter of Mexico City businessman Samuel (Latin heartthrob Marc Anthony). Pita is kidnapped during a shootout with unknown assailants, and in response, Creasy begins his campaign to “do what I do best,” as he puts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happenings | 4/30/2004 | See Source »

...Scott is reunited with Tide costar Denzel Washington for the story of Creasy, an alcoholic former Special Forces operative recruited by his old friend Rayburn (Christopher Walken) to guard Pita (Dakota Fanning), the young daughter of Mexico City businessman Samuel (Latin heartthrob Marc Anthony...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review: Man on Fire | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...only the most noticeable evidence of the film’s flaws. Rayburn is never defined as a character. His story is hinted at but never shown, perhaps left on the cutting-room floor...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review: Man on Fire | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

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