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...Hastert led congressional appeals to the White House, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller made clear that they would not comply with any presidential order to return the seized materials--and were willing to risk being fired for their defiance, says a law-enforcement source. So the President instead ordered the FBI to hand over the documents to the Solicitor General's office, which is not involved in the probe. The documents will be sealed for 45 days while Congress and the Administration seek agreement on what prosecutors may view...
...Scanner Darkly is a live-action animated film. That is, Linklater first shot scenes with his star cast of actors - including Keanu Reeves (as Arctor/Fred), Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder - and then had artists trace over the images, adding such fantasy elements as bugs crawling over one druggie and a protean "scramble suit," worn by Fred to disguise his identity (whatever that is). At times a face is given a kind of Jell-O elasticity. Linklater first used this process, called rotoscoping, five years ago in Waking Life. It's appropriate to the subject, and is used...
...really panicked,” Mekonnen said. “I’ve never seen that before.” According to Harvard University Police Department spokesman Steven G. Catalano, the incident isn’t being investigated as a criminal matter. Fitzgerald said that her father, Robert, was kept in the hospital overnight because the doctors wanted to run tests to make sure no internal bleeding took place. “They also kept in him to make sure he hadn’t suffered any mild heart attacks,” she said. Mekonnen said that...
...Harvard Medical School (HMS) biochemist’s research on a common cause of blindness in the elderly has generated a lucrative deal with Merck & Co., the US’s second-largest drug provider. Pfeiffer Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Robert R. Rando’s research has paved the way for the manufacturing of drugs that might combat the progression of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common version of AMD which causes vision loss in up to eight million American elderly a year. Merck will pay an initial $3 million, along with later...
...completely agree that “listening and engaging in productive debate” with someone who holds different political views from one’s own is a very useful activity. However, I do not believe that allowing Robert McNamara to speak in 1966 or John McCain just last week would provide such an experience...