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...mystery how this bold, striking star-in-the-making avoided Hollywood's eye for 15 years, but for off-Hollywood, off-kilter dramas, Swinton has been the go-to lass - the queen of the indies. (See a multi-media analysis of 78 years of Oscar by Richard Corliss...
...Boston Commons. The activity was hardly unique to the occasion: the 18th annual Boston Freedom Rally was, like its 17 predecessors, a joint concert-and-protest event aimed at boosting the campaign to legalize marijuana. Nor was the action entirely spontaneous: the two men were Keith Stroup and Richard Cusick, they were, respectively, the founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the publisher of High Times Magazine, and they intended to make a statement. Taken into custody by an officer at the rally, the two men were respectful and well-behaved—quiet...
...safety and security of the people on our campus is HUPD’s primary concern” and will not be affected by budgetary changes, said University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall. But at Wednesday’s meeting of the Construction Management Subcommittee for the Science Complex, Richard Mederos, HUPD’s sergeant of community policing, said closing the substation was on the table due to budget cuts, although officers would continue to patrol the area and maintain security. The issue was first raised by local resident Edward A. Kotomori, who said he heard about the possibility from people...
...Indeed, Democrats have a history of strategic idiocy when it comes to health care. Nearly 40 years ago, Richard Nixon proposed a universal system in which employers would be required to pay for their employees' coverage, but Democrats blocked it because they favored a government-run single-payer system. Twenty years later, Bill and Hillary Clinton proposed a system similar to Nixon's - but failed to bring aboard moderate Republicans, who favored a universal system based on requiring individuals rather than employers to participate. In the 2008 campaign, Obama and Hillary Clinton proposed plans that looked very much like...
News of the latest incident came not long after NATO announced a significant reduction in conflict-related civilians deaths over the first quarter of this year versus the same period in 2007. Gen. Richard Blanchette, the coaltion spokesman, said this was a function of stricter protocols. Since last summer, he explained, the decision-making process down the chain of command has been "reviewed numerous times" to minimize risk to civilians, resulting in more operations cancelled. "But," he pointed out, "you never hear news reports of an airstrike not taking place...