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Like most Americans, I'm not concerned that the president is really going to be thrown out of office. That would be asking for a popular revolt. At some point during this trial, someone in the Senate is going to take a look at a poll and put an end to all of this craziness...
...enough heart. Eleanor was the "eyes and ears" of her wheelchair-bound husband, his pipeline to African Americans, Jews and other disfranchised people. Her middle-aged, maternal image gave the New Deal its most compassionate face. In 1940, F.D.R. dispatched Eleanor to the Democratic Convention to quell a revolt against his choice of political outsider Henry Wallace as running mate. "This," she told the convention, "is no ordinary time," and the force of her presence ended the crisis...
Unfortunately, as long as Armageddon grosses over $200 million compared to the $3 million pulled in so far by Life is Beautiful, Hollywood will not have the impetus to change its ways. However, pushing for partial reform is not a pipe dream. Viewer revolt against megablockbusters has already begun in small measure. Predicted cash cows such as Deep Impact and Godzilla brought in less than expected at the box office. If the failure of these films starts a trend, then studios may begin to re-emphasize plot lines more over explosions. Though Hollywood may never become a mecca for high...
Looking back, one can see that Rozelle's career was built on his talent for 1) persuading rich men who were unfamiliar with not having everything they wanted to take less than they deserved and 2) preventing full-scale revolt the minute the stakes became high. The subsequent endless pressures on Rozelle are familiar to anyone who has ever built a successful cartel--and cartels by and large fail. A member is more inclined to cheat the group the more successfully the group drives up his price. When Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys cut a side deal with Pepsi...
...best examples of this is the oblique relationship between officials of the I.N.C. and the U.S. government. Some I.N.C. leaders have long ties to the U.S. In the 1970s, the U.S. financed a Kurdish revolt to destabilize Iraq, which was menacing Iran. Thousands of Kurds paid with their life when the U.S. dropped the plan after the Shah of Iran made peace with Baghdad. In 1991, President Bush called on Iraqis to revolt, but when they did, U.S. troops stood by as Saddam crushed the uprising by slaughtering thousands more...