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...Robert L. Paarlberg is the Betty F. Johnson Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and a Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University...
...Harris, who served as a deputy police superintendent and city budget director, helped run the Hired Truck program under Daley. That investigation ultimately ensnared Daley's former patronage chief, Robert Sorich, who was convicted of mail fraud and rigging promotions and job fills at city hall. Harris, widely considered a tough, prickly boss, was not charged as part of the probe...
There was common agreement, especially among the young, that Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still was a really neat movie. And so it remains, for a lot of reasons: its timing, at the onset of the atomic age and the cold war; the clear identification of Klaatu as a Christ figure (his earth name is John Carpenter - or "JC" if you care to parse those initials - and his surname refers us to Jesus's occupation); the fact that its success helped initiate what amounted to a new and potent movie genre - sci-fi - and, above...
...some of us do have good movie memories and strong affection for the indelible impressions left on us by the populist triumphs of the past. For us, and for everyone who'd like to join us, Twentieth Century Fox has put out a nice two-disc DVD of the Robert Wise original. It cost less than two tickets to this travesty and I urge it upon you. It's the best Christmas afternoon pastime I can imagine...
...growing cholera crisis in Zimbabwe, which the U.N. estimates has killed 783 people and has infected more than 16,000, simply doesn't exist in the mind of Robert Mugabe. "I am happy to say," the nation's president of 28 years announced on Thursday, "there is no cholera." And, he added, "now that there is no cholera, there is no cause...