Word: rejections
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...second Roosevelt in the White House receives similar treatment in The Golden Age. As the novel opens in 1940, F.D.R. is shown secretly maneuvering the country toward a war in Europe that the people would, if consulted, totally reject. Sanford's Aunt Caroline, a major character in Empire and Hollywood, is a friend of the Roosevelts and a frequent guest at the White House. She is charmed by the President but also chilled by what she sees as his inexhaustible deviousness. "There is a curse on power," she blurts out to the First Lady. Mrs. Roosevelt replies, "Not when used...
...check in the system is judges, who have the power to reject the prosecutorial claims but tend not to use it. David Cole, law professor at Georgetown University, explains, "When the government claims the fate of the U.S. is at stake, judges tend to believe that. How is a judge supposed to assess on his own whether a national-security threat exists...
...second Roosevelt in the White House receives similar treatment in "The Golden Age." As the novel opens in 1940, FDR is shown secretly maneuvering the country toward a war in Europe that the people would, if consulted, totally reject. Sanford's Aunt Caroline, a major character in "Empire" and "Hollywood," is a friend of the Roosevelts and a frequent guest at the White House. She is charmed by the President but also chilled by what she sees as his inexhaustible deviousness. "There is a curse on power," she blurts out to the First Lady. Mrs. Roosevelt replies, "Not when used...
...trying to make sense of it. How could we have flown the entire family 6,000 miles from Denver to meet a woman who was afraid to walk 20 yds. across the street to meet us? Why had we come this far if she was only going to reject Rae again...
...Right, but that was a different job I was doing. When I was at the endowment, my main interest was in preserving the integrity of scholarship. When I was there, we were at the apogee of the time when people were rejecting the notion that scholarship should be objective or balanced. That seemed to me to present lots and lots of problems to a government agency funding scholarship. Because once you reject the notion that scholarship shouldn't be objective or strive for balance, then what you are funding are things that have a viewpoint. And what's the government...