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...Playing Blair for the second time after his performance in the 2005 Beaton play A Very Social Secretary, about the decline and fall of Home Secretary David Blunkett, actor Robert Lindsay is spot on with the PM's speech patterns, mannerisms and tics. Lindsay visibly swells when an aide advises Blair to shun the press after his resignation, telling Blair "You're Olympian." But while waiting for the U.N. to call and offer him "something big" or for Bono to get in touch, Blair sits around toying with the idea of setting up the "Blair Foundation for International Peace...
...cases that defy reason. As written, however, the law provides no such exception, a fact that peeves prosecutors and judges—who focus on its racially disparate impact—as much as Harvard students. The state court’s chief justice for administration and management, Robert A. Mullignan, has criticized such laws vociferously. He pointed out that, for instance, in the city of Boston “unless you’re on the tarmac of Logan Airport, you’re within 1,000 feet of a school.” Similarly, state Representative William Brownsberger...
...Laurie thanked his costar Robert Sean Leonard ("I can't remember why. He did give me a reason") and "a truly wonderful crew. I know everyone says they have a wonderful crew, and logically that can't be the case. They can't all be wonderful. Somebody somewhere is working with a crew of drunken thieves. But it's not me. They are truly a wonderful collection of people... and they smell of newly mown grass." He ended by thanking, well, everyone else in the room, the TV audience and the world: "... and of course you! I left you till...
...there is one final issue that hovers over the Obama candidacy: race. Only a handful of African-Americans have even won statewide office in the last decade. That's why Robert Ford, a black state senator from South Carolina who is an Obama fan, says he'll back Edwards or Hillary Clinton. "Obama would need 43% in some states of the white vote to win, and that's humanly impossible," Ford says. "We in the South don't believe America is ready to elect a black President." That's not a view all civil rights activists have; Jesse Jackson...
...Robert Gates may have had his job as Secretary of Defense only three weeks, but he's getting used to the juggling...